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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Fisheries Act 1981

1981 CHAPTER 29

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    The Sea Fish Industry Authority

    1. Constitution, duties and powers

      1. 1. Constitution of the Authority

      2. 2. Duties of the Authority

      3. 3. Powers of the Authority

    2. Financial provisions

      1. 4. Levies

      2. 5. Records and information for levy purposes

      3. 6. Borrowing powers

      4. 7. Government loans

      5. 8. Government grants

      6. 9. Government guarantees

      7. 10.Investment of reserve funds

    3. Supplementary

      1. 11. Accounts and reports

      2. 12. Restriction on disclosure of information

      3. 13. Abolition of White Fish Authority and Herring Industry Board

      4. 14. Interpretation of Part I

  2. Part II

    Financial Assistance for Sea Fish Industry

    1. 15. Schemes of financial assistance

    2. 16. Administration of schemes by Sea Fish Industry Authority

    3. 17. Offences in connection with schemes

    4. 18. Interpretation of Part II

    5. 18A.

  3. Part III

    Regulation of Sea Fishing

    1. 19. Size limits for fish

    2. 20. Licensing of fishing boats

    3. 21. Licensing of vessels receiving trans-shipped fish

    4. 22. Power to restrict sea fishing

    5. 23. Prohibition of trans-shipment of sea fish

    6. 24. Penalties for offences

    7. 25. Enforcement of Act of 1967

    8. 26. British sea-fishery officers

    9. 27. Enforcement of provisions as to trans-shipment

    10. 28. Offences by bodies corporate

    11. 29. Jurisdiction

    12. 30. Enforcement of Community rules

  4. Part IV

    Fish Farming

    1. 31. Financial assistance

    2. 32. Research, development and advice

    3. 33. Exclusion of offences under conservation legislation

    4. 34. Structures for propagating or cultivating shellfish

  5. Part V

    Miscellaneous and Supplementary

    1. 35. Regulation of whaling

    2. 36. Landing etc. of whales in Scotland

    3. 37. Import of live fish

    4. 38. Fisheries offences on River Tweed

    5. 39. Reports on fisheries

    6. 40. Fishery protection in waters adjacent to Northern Ireland

    7. 41. Orders and schemes

    8. 42. Offences by bodies corporate

    9. 43. Financial provisions

    10. 44. General interpretation

    11. 45. Amendment of section 22(2) of Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967

    12. 46. Short title, repeals, commencement and extent

  6. SCHEDULE 1

    The Sea Fish Industry Authority

  7. SCHEDULE 2

    Sea Fish Industry Levies

  8. SCHEDULE 3

    White Fish Authority and Herring Industry Board: Consequential Provisions

  9. SCHEDULE 4

    Exemptions for Fish Farming

  10. SCHEDULE 5

    Repeals

An Act to establish a Sea Fish Industry Authority with the duty of promoting the efficiency of the sea fish industry in the United Kingdom; to provide financial assistance for that industry; to amend the law relating to the regulation of sea fishing; to make new provision in relation to fish farming; to amend the enactments relating to whales and the importation of live fish; to extend sections 6 and 7 of the Freshwater and Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1976 to the part of the River Tweed outside Scotland; to repeal section 5(3) of the Fishery Board (Scotland) Act 1882; and to enable the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland to incur expenditure on fishery protection in waters adjacent to Northern Ireland.

[2nd July 1981]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Act: transfer of certain functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3

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