The Foreign Sea-Fishery Officers Order 1976

Statutory Instruments

1976 No. 1103

SEA FISHERIES

BOATS AND METHODS OF FISHING

The Foreign Sea-Fishery Officers Order 1976

Made

12th July 1976

Laid before Parliament

21st July 1976

Coming into Operation

22nd July 1976

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and Northern Ireland in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 7(4) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following order:—

Citation and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Foreign Sea-Fishery Officers Order 1976 and shall come into operation on 22nd July 1976.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this order:—

“the Act” means the Sea Fisheries Act 1968;

“the baselines” means the lines drawn round the coast of Iceland so as to join successively, in the order in which they are there set out, the points identified by the co-ordinates of latitude and longitude in Schedule 1 to this order;

“the Convention” means the Agreement between Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the government of Iceland signed at Oslo on 1st June 1976(1).

“the Convention area” means the area to which the Convention applies being the area described in Schedule 2 to this order;

“mile” means nautical mile;

“the 12 mile line” means a line drawn round the coast of Iceland 12 miles from the baselines and extended seawards by lines drawn 12 miles from and around the Island of Grimsey (from its outermost headlands and skerries), and around Hvalbakur (64° 35.8&min; north latitude 13° 16.6&min; west longitude).

“the 200 mile line” means a line drawn round the coast of Iceland 200 miles from the baselines and extended seawards by lines drawn 200 miles around Hvalbakur (64° 35.8&min; north latitude 13° 16.6&min; west longitude) and around Kolbeinsey (67° 08.8&min; north latitude 18° 40.6&min; west longitude).

“the United Kingdom baselines” means the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea surrounding the United Kingdom is measured.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Foreign Sea-Fishery Officers

3.  In relation to the Convention there are hereby specified as foreign sea-fishery officers, entitled to exercise in relation to British fishing boats anywhere within the Convention area the powers referred to in section 9 of the Act, persons duly appointed by the government of Iceland as inspectors to enforce the provisions of the Convention.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 12th July 1976.

L.S.

Frederick Peart

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Bruce Millan

Secretary of State for Scotland

8th July 1976

Merlyn Rees

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

9th July 1976

SCHEDULE 1 THE BASELINES

The baselines defined in Article 2(1) of this order are drawn by joining together successively in the order in which they are set out below, the points identified by the following co-ordinates of latitude and longitude:—

1. Horn	66° 27.4&min; north	22° 24.3&min; west
2. Asbudarrif	66° 08.1&min; north	20° 11.0&min; west
3. Siglunes	66° 11.9&min; north	18° 49.9&min; west
4. Flatey	66° 10.3&min; north	17° 50.3&min; west
5. Lagey	66° 17.8&min; north	17° 06.8&min; west
6. Raudinupur	66° 30.7&min; north	16° 32.4&min; west
7. Rifstangi	66° 32.3&min; north	16° 11.8&min; west
8. Hraunhafnartangi	66° 32.2&min; north	16° 01.5&min; west
9. Langanes	66° 22.7&min; north	14° 31.9&min; west
10. Glettinganes	65° 30.5&min; north	13° 36.3&min; west
11. Nordfjardarhorn	65° 10.0&min; north	13° 30.8&min; west
12. Gerpir	65° 04.7&min; north	13° 29.6&min; west
13. Holmur	64° 58.9&min; north	13° 30.6&min; west
14. Setusker	64° 57.7&min; north	13° 31.5&min; west
15. Thursasker	64° 54.1&min; north	13° 36.8&min; west
16. Yztibodi	64° 35.2&min; north	14° 01.5&min; west
17. Selsker	64° 32.8&min; north	14° 07.0&min; west
18. Hvitingar	64° 23.9&min; north	14° 28.0&min; west
19. Stokksnes	64° 14.1&min; north	14° 58.4&min; west
20. Hrollaugseyjar	64° 01.7&min; north	15° 58.7&min; west
21. Tvisker	63° 55.7&min; north	16° 11.3&min; west
22. Ingolfshofdi	63° 47.8&min; north	16° 38.5&min; west
23. Hvalsiki	63° 44.1&min; north	17° 33.5&min; west
24. Medallandssandur I	63° 32.4&min; north	17° 06.6&min; west
25. Medallandssandur II	63° 30.6&min; north	17° 59.9&min; west
26. Myrnatangi	63° 27.4&min; north	18° 11.8&min; west
27. Kotlutangi	63° 23.4&min; north	18° 42.8&min; west
28. Lundadrangur	63° 23.5&min; north	19° 07.5&min; west
29. Surtsey	63° 17.6&min; north	20° 36.3&min; west
30. Eldeyjardrangur	63° 43.8&min; north	22° 59.4&min; west
31. Geirfugladrangur	63° 40.7&min; north	23° 17.1&min; west
32. Skalasnagi	64° 51.3&min; north	24° 02.5&min; west
33. Bjargtangar	65° 30.2&min; north	24° 32.1&min; west
34. Kopanes	65° 48.4&min; north	24° 06.0&min; west
35. Bardi	66° 03.7&min; north	23° 47.4&min; west
36. Straumnes	66° 25.7&min; north	23° 08.4&min; west
37. Kogur	66° 28.3&min; north	22° 55.5&min; west
38. Horn	66° 27.9&min; north	22° 28.2&min; west

SCHEDULE 2

The area between the 12 mile line and the 200 mile line but excluding therefrom—

(i)

the area of sea within a radius of 12 miles from Kolbeinsey (67° 08.8&min; north latitude 18° 40.6&min; west longitude).

(ii)

the areas of sea beyond the median lines, that is to say—

(a)

a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest point on the baselines on the one hand and the baselines of Greenland on the other;

(b)

a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest point on the baselines on the one hand and the baselines of the Faroe Islands on the other;

(c)

a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest point on the baselines on the one hand and the United Kingdom baselines on the other.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order specifies the class of persons who are to be foreign sea-fishery officers for the purpose of enforcing a specified Convention between the United Kingdom Government and the government of Iceland relating to the conduct of fishing in the area specified in the order.

(1)

Cmnd. 6545.