The Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1972

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order

• “the Act” means the Fishery Limits Act 1964;

• “the baselines” means the baselines from which the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom is measured as prescribed by the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964(1);

• “the Community States” means the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the Republic of Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands;

• “demersal fish” means all sea fish other than salmon, migratory trout, mackerel, clupeoid fish, sand eels, Norway pout, smelts, eels, great weevers, crustaceans and molluscs (other than squids);

• “the exclusive fishery limits” means the United Kingdom fishery limits to a distance of 6 miles from the baselines;

• “fishing boat” means a vessel of whatever size and in whatever way propelled which is for the time being employed in sea fishing;

• “the Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively;

• “the outer belt” means the United Kingdom fishery limits other than the exclusive fishery limits;

• “the outer belt appurtenant to” in relation to a coast or island means that part of the outer belt which is within 12 miles of the baseline along such coast or round such island;

• “the reserved waters” means the areas comprising the waters within those parts of the outer belt described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

• “United Kingdom fishery limits” means those parts of the fishery limits of the British Islands which are adjacent to the United Kingdom.

(2) In this Order all directions shall be related to the true compass.

(3) The Interpretation Act 1889(2) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if the Order and the Orders hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.

(1)

1965 III p. 6452 A.

(2)

1889 c. 63.