The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 2394

SEA FISHERIES

CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH

The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1990

Made

23rd November 1990

Laid before Parliament

4th December 1990

Coming into force

5th December 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5(1), 15(3) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

(1)

1967 c. 84; section 5(1) was substituted by section 22(1) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29) and, by virtue of S.I. 1973/238, section 5 applies in relation to British fishing boats registered in the Isle of Man as it applies in relation to British fishing boats registered in the United Kingdom; section 15(3) was substituted by paragraph 38(3) of Schedule 1 to the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) and amended by paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86); section 22(2)(a), which contains a definition of “the Ministers” for the purposes of sections 5 and 15(3), was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b).