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Final provisionsU.K.

50Amendments that could have been made under existing powersU.K.

(1)Where—

(a)any provision of this Act amends or revokes subordinate legislation, and

(b)the amendment or revocation could have been made under a power conferred by an enactment,

the amendment or revocation is treated, for the purpose of making further provision under that enactment, as having been made under it.

(2)In this section “enactment” has the same meaning as in the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

51RegulationsU.K.

(1)Regulations under any provision of this Act may make—

(a)consequential, supplementary, incidental, transitional, or saving provision;

(b)different provision for different purposes or areas.

(2)Regulations under this Act made by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers are to be made by statutory instrument.

(3)Where regulations under this Act are subject to “the negative resolution procedure” and are made —

(a)by the Secretary of State, the statutory instrument containing them is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament;

(b)by the Scottish Ministers, they are subject to the negative procedure (see Part 2 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10));

(c)by the Welsh Ministers, they are subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of Senedd Cymru;

(d)by the Northern Ireland department, the instrument containing them is subject to negative resolution (within the meaning of section 41(6) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954).

(4)Where regulations under this Act are subject to “the affirmative resolution procedure” and are made—

(a)by the Secretary of State, they may not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing them has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament;

(b)by the Scottish Ministers, they are subject to the affirmative procedure (see Part 2 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10));

(c)by the Welsh Ministers, they may not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru;

(d)by the Northern Ireland department, they may not be made unless a draft of the instrument containing them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(5)Any provision that may be made by regulations under this Act subject to the negative resolution procedure may be made by regulations subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.

(6)This section does not apply to regulations under section 54.

52InterpretationU.K.

In this Act—

53ExtentU.K.

(1)Subject as follows, this Act extends to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

(2)In Schedule 8—

(a)Part 1 extends to Scotland only;

(b)Part 2 extends to England and Wales only;

(c)Part 3 extends to Northern Ireland only.

(3)An amendment, repeal or revocation made by this Act has the same extent as the provision amended, repealed or revoked.

(4)But an amendment, repeal or revocation does not, by virtue of subsection (3), extend to any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

(5)Subsection (4) does not apply to the repeals and revocations made by paragraphs 3 to 5 of Schedule 4.

(6)Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide for the following provisions of this Act to extend, with or without modifications, to any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man—

(a)subsection (1)(a) of section 36 (power to make provision for the purpose of implementing international obligations),

(b)subsections (4) to (6) of that section,

(c)section 37 (interpretation of section 36),

(d)sections 39 to 41 (regulations under section 36: scope and procedure),

(e)section 51 (regulations), and

(f)section 52 (interpretation).

54CommencementU.K.

(1)The following provisions come into force on the day on which this Act is passed—

(a)sections 1 to 11 and Schedule 1 (fisheries objectives, statements etc);

(b)sections 23, 24 and 26 (fishing opportunities);

(c)section 33 and Schedule 6 (financial assistance);

(d)sections 36 to 42 and Schedule 8 (powers to make further provision);

(e)section 43 (agency arrangements between sea fish licensing authorities);

(f)section 48(a) and Part 1 of Schedule 10 (general functions of MMO);

(g)sections 50 to 55 (final provisions).

(2)Sections 45 and 46 (legislative competence of Senedd Cymru etc) come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed.

(3)The following provisions come into force on IP completion day—

(a)sections 12 and 13 and Schedule 2 (foreign fishing boats: access etc);

(b)sections 14 to 22, Schedule 3 and (subject to subsection (6)) Schedule 4 (licensing of fishing boats);

(c)section 25 (distribution of fishing opportunities);

(d)section 35 (charging by Sea Fish Industry Authority);

(e)section 44 (foreign fishing boats exclusively Faroe Islands-regulated);

(f)section 49 and Schedule 11 (minor and consequential amendments).

(4)The following provisions come into force on IP completion day or, if later, at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which this Act is passed—

(a)section 27 and Schedule 5 (sale of fishing opportunities);

(b)sections 28 to 32 (discard prevention charging schemes);

(c)section 34 and Schedule 7 (charges: powers of MMO etc);

(d)section 48(b) and Part 2 of Schedule 10 (powers relating to the exploitation of sea fisheries resources).

(5)Section 47 and Schedule 9 (conservation of seals) come into force on 1 March 2021.

(6)In Schedule 4, the amendment made by paragraph 6(13)(d) is treated as always having had effect.

(7)The Secretary of State may by regulations make transitional or saving provision in connection with the coming into force of any provision of this Act.

(8)The power to make regulations under subsection (7) includes power to make different provision for different purposes.

(9)Regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument.

55Short titleU.K.

This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Act 2020.