Sea Fish Industry Act 1970

Sections 6 and 7.

SCHEDULE 3 Authority's Regulations and Schemes (Preliminary Procedure)

1 At least twenty-eight days before making any regulations or submitting any scheme the Authority shall cause to be published in the London Gazette and the Edinburgh Gazette (and, while Part I of this Act extends to Northern Ireland, the Belfast Gazette) and in such other manner as they think best adapted for informing persons affected, a notice of the Authority's intention to do so—

(a) specifying the place where the draft regulations or scheme may be inspected and copies thereof obtained, and the price (being a price approved by the Ministers) at which such copies will be supplied; and

(b) stating that the Authority are prepared to receive and consider any objection to the proposed regulations or scheme which may be made to the Authority in writing within such period after the date of the publication of the notice, not being less than twenty-eight days, as may be specified in the notice ;

and the Authority shall, before making the regulations or submitting the scheme, take into consideration any such objection so made to them before the end of the period specified in that behalf in the said notice.

2 When submitting any regulations or scheme to the Ministers, the Authority shall transmit to them any objection thereto which has been duly made to the Authority and has not been withdrawn, and the Ministers shall consider any objections so transmitted to them.

3 The order confirming any regulations or scheme shall set out the regulations or scheme ; but before making any such order or, in the case of a scheme, before laying a draft of the order before Parliament, the Ministers may, after holding such inquiries (if any) as they think fit, make such modifications in the regulations or scheme as they may, after consultation with the Authority, consider desirable:

Provided that, if the Ministers decide to make any such modifications, they shall cause notice of the proposed modifications to be published in such manner as they think best adapted for informing persons affected.