Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23)

Part 8 U.K. Enforcement

Chapter 1 U.K. Enforcement officers

Marine enforcement officers U.K.

239 Marine enforcement officers as British sea-fishery officers U.K.

(1) Section 7 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) (sea-fishery officers) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) after paragraph (c) insert—

“(ca) persons appointed as marine enforcement officers under section 235 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;”;

(b) in paragraph (d), omit “of the Secretary of State or”.

(3) After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A) A person falling within paragraph (b), (c) or (ca) of subsection (1) above may not exercise the powers or perform the duties of a British sea-fishery officer in any case where the person may, in the person's capacity as a marine enforcement officer, exercise the common enforcement powers conferred by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (see Chapter 1 of Part 8 of that Act).”

(4) In subsection (5) (definition of “the appropriate Minister”), omit paragraph (a).

Commencement Information

I1 S. 239 in force at 12.1.2010 by S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 18