The Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (Specified Countries) Designation Order 1996 and shall come into force on 24th April 1996.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Fishery Limits Act 1976;

“ICES areas” means those statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea(1) which are referred to by their short names in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order and are described in column 2 of that Schedule opposite the reference to their short names, but excluding any part of those areas which is within 12 miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man is measured or which is outside British fishery limits(2).

Access to British fisheries

3.—(1) The countries specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 of this Order are hereby designated for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Act (hereinafter called “the designated countries”).

(2) In relation to each of the designated countries there are hereby designated the ICES areas specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 opposite the reference to that country (hereinafter called “the designated areas”).

(3) The descriptions of sea fish for which the fishing boats registered in any of the designated countries may fish in any of the designated areas shall be those specified in column 3 of Schedule 2 opposite the reference to that area, which shall have effect subject to the Notes to that Schedule.

Tony Baldry

Minister of State,

Ministry of Agriculture,

Fisheries and Food

26th March 1996

Raymond Robertson

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Scottish Office

27th March 1996

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Rod Richards

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Welsh Office

3rd April 1996

Patrick Mayhew

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

28th March 1996