Regulation of the landing of sea fish

8 Regulation of landing of foreign-caught sea fish.

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this section and of section 9 of this Act, the F1Secretary of State for Trade, after consultation with the Ministers, may by order regulate the landing in the United Kingdom of sea fish which have not been both—

(a)

taken by British fishing boats registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands; and

(b)

brought to land in the United Kingdom without having been previously landed outside the United Kingdom;

and, without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by the foregoing provisions of this section, an order under this section may determine for any such period as may be specified in the order—

(i)

the descriptions of such sea fish as aforesaid which may be landed in the United Kingdom;

(ii)

the quantity of such sea fish, or of any description thereof, which may be so landed;

but the landing of sea fish taken by a British fishing boat registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands shall not be exempt from the operation of an order under this section unless the master is either a British subject or a citizen of the Republic of Ireland and the second hand is also either a British subject or such a citizen.

(2)

Any order under this section may contain such provisions as appear to the F1Secretary of State for Trade after consultation with the Ministers, to be necessary for securing the due operation and enforcement of the scheme of regulation contained in the order.

(3)

An order under this section regulating the landing of sea fish shall not be made unless it appears to the F1Secretary of State for Trade, after consultation with the Ministers, that there have been, or are being, taken all such steps (if any) as are practicable and necessary for the efficient reorganisation of that branch of the sea fishing industry of the United Kingdom or of that branch of the fish curing industry in the United Kingdom, as the case may be, in whose interests the order is proposed to be made.

(4)

In deciding whether or not to make an order under this section, and in settling the terms of any such order, the F1Secretary of State for Trade shall, among other considerations, have regard to the interests of consumers of the sea fish to which the order relates (including persons who purchase such sea fish for the purpose of subjecting them to any treatment or process of manufacture) and to the effect which the regulation of the landing of such sea fish in the United Kingdom is likely to have upon commercial relations between the United Kingdom and other countries; and the F1Secretary of State for Trade shall not make such an order unless they are satisfied that it is not at variance with any treaty, convention or agreement for the time being in force between Her Majesty and any foreign power or between Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and the government of any other country.