Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 1014

The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) (No. 2) Order 1990

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1990 No. 1014

SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) (No. 2) Order 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 15(3), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967^[1], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) (No. 2) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 24th May 1990.

Variation of the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989
    2.    The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989^[2] shall be varied in accordance with articles 3 to 6 below.

    3.    In article 2 thereof (interpretation)—


(a)  there shall be inserted after the definition of "mile" the following definition—

    ""Moroccan waters" means any waters which are under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Morocco;" ;



(b)  there shall be inserted at the end the following definition—

    ""United States' exclusive economic zone" means a zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States of America, the seaward boundary of which is a line drawn in such a manner that each point on it is 200 miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea of the United States of America is measured." .

    4.    In article 3 thereof (prohibition of fishing without a licence and exceptions thereto)—


(a)  in paragraph (1) there shall be inserted after the words "sea fish" the words "(other than salmon or migratory trout)";


(b)  in paragraph (2)(b)(vi) there shall be substituted for the words from "adjacent to England" to the end the words "within a zone delimited by a line running due south from Landguard Point in 51°56' north latitude and 1°19,1' east longitude to 51°33' north latitude and thence due west to a point on the coast of England";


(c)  in paragraph (2) there shall be inserted at the end the following sub-paragraph—


"(c)  by any boat used wholly for the purpose of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure with rod and line or by handline." .

    5.    For Schedule 2 thereto (areas of sea and descriptions of sea fish in respect of which prohibition of fishing without licence applies) there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Order.

    6.    In Schedule 3 thereto (areas of sea and descriptions of sea fish caught therein to which retention on board provisions apply) there shall be omitted in column 1 the entry "ICES VIIa *(see note below)" and in column 2 the entry "Cod, plaice, whiting".

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on
23rd April 1990.

L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food


Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

24th April 1990

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

26th April 1990

Peter Brooke

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

2nd May 1990

[1] 1967 c. 84; section 4 was amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), section 3 and by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 20; section 15(3) was amended by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and by the Fishery Limits Act 1976, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1); section 4 was applied in relation to British fishing boats registered in the Isle of Man and any of the Channel Islands by the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Manx Boats) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/281) and the Sea Fish (Conservation) (Channel Islands Boats) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/280); section 22(2)(a) which contains a definition of "the Ministers" for the purposes of sections 4 and 15(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b). back

[2] S.I. 1989/2015, amended by S.I. 1990/504. back

Explanatory Note