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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 231
Sea Fisheries
The Sea Fish (Specified Sea Areas) (Regulation of Nets and Other Fishing Gear) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2010
Made
10th June 2010
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
11th June 2010
Coming into force
3rd July 2010
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3 and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1967 c.84 (“the 1967 Act”); section 3 was amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c.86) (“the 1976 Act”), Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1), the Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984 (c.26), Schedule 1 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (“S.I. 1999/1820”), Schedule 2, paragraph 43(2)(b) and (4). Section 15(3) was substituted by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c.77), section 22(5), Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3) and was amended by the 1976 Act, Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1) and S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 43(2)(b). Sections 3 and 15(3) were modified in relation to Scotland by section 22A(2) and (10) of the 1967 Act, as inserted by S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 43(13). Relevant modifications are further contained in the Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1748), article 5 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756), articles 3, 5 and 6. The functions of the Secretary of State, in or as regards Scotland, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46). A definition of “the Ministers” is contained in section 22(2)(a) of the 1967 Act. Section 22(2)(a) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c.29), sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b). The definition was modified in relation to Scotland by section 22A(12)(b) of the 1967 Act, as inserted by S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, paragraph 43(13).