The Fishing Boats (Satellite — Tracking Devices and Electronic Transmission of Fishing Activities Data) (Wales) Scheme 2012

Scheme made by the Welsh Ministers and laid before the National Assembly for Wales under section 15(3) of the Fisheries Act 1981, for approval by resolution of the National Assembly for Wales within forty days beginning with the day on which the Scheme was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution or recess for more than four days.

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 3172 (W.318)

SEA FISHERIES, WALES

The Fishing Boats (Satellite — Tracking Devices and Electronic Transmission of Fishing Activities Data) (Wales) Scheme 2012

Made

21 December 2012

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

21 December 2012

Coming into force

31 December 2012

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 15(1) and (2) of the Fisheries Act 1981(1), and now vested in them (2), as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972(3), make the following Scheme with the approval of the Treasury.

This Scheme makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for certain references to Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 establishing a Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy and to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 404/2011 laying down detailed rules for implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1224/2009 to be construed as references to those Regulations as amended from time to time.

(1)

1981 c. 29. See section 18(1) for the definition of “the Ministers”. Sections 15(2) and 18(1) were amended by S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 68(1), (2) and (3).

(2)

By virtue of article 2(a) of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) the functions exercisable under section 15 of the 1981 Act were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales (as constituted under the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38)) in so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. Those functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). The Treasury approval requirements under section 15 of the 1981 Act continue in effect.

(3)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), section 27(1)(a) and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7), Part 1 of the Schedule. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), section 28 and amended by the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7), section 3(3), Part 1 of the Schedule and the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007 (SI 2007/1388), article 3, paragraph 1 of Schedule 1.