15 Public fisheries: elimination of disease or pest affecting shellfish.E+W+S
(1)This section applies to any waters in which the public have a right to fish, other than—
(a)waters which are within the limits of a fishery in respect of which a right (whether a right of several fishery or of regulating a fishery) conferred by an order under section 1 of this Act is for the time being in force;
(b)waters (not falling within paragraph (a) above) in which a person has an exclusive right to take shellfish of any description.
(2)The appropriate Minister may take any action which appears to him to be requisite—
(a)for destroying any shellfish which are in any waters to which this section applies and which appear to him to be affected by a disease or pest, or
(b)for eliminating from any such waters any disease or pest affecting shellfish;
and (where he has taken any action in respect of any waters in accordance with paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) above) for causing those waters to be restocked with shellfish.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 15 transfer of functions (31.3.2010) by The Welsh Zone (Boundaries and Transfer of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/760), arts. 1(3), 4(1)(a) (with art. 5(2)(3))