The Sea Fishing (Landing and Weighing of Herring, Mackerel and Horse Mackerel) Order 2009 (revoked)

Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 1850

Sea Fisheries, England

The Sea Fishing (Landing and Weighing of Herring, Mackerel and Horse Mackerel) Order 2009 (revoked)F1

Made

8th July 2009

Laid before Parliament

14th July 2009

Coming into force

12th August 2009

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Textual Amendments

F1 Order revoked (E.W.) (6.3.2015) by The Sea Fishing (Enforcement and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/191), art. 1(1), Sch.

F1 EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes provision for the enforcement of restrictions and obligations relating to the landing and weighing of herring, mackerel and horse mackerel contained in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1542/2007 (OJ No L 337, 21.12.2007, p. 56) (“the Commission Regulation”).

Article 4 designates the ports for the landing of herring, mackerel and horse mackerel.

Article 5 designates the competent authority for purposes of the Commission Regulation.

Article 6 provides that the Secretary of State may approve a weighing system for weighing herring, mackerel or horse mackerel, and article 7 provides that it is an offence for a person to fail to comply with provisions of the Commission Regulation relating to the weighing of fresh fish.

Article 8 provides that it is an offence to contravene, or fail to comply with, the provisions of the Commission Regulation specified in the Schedule. These offences relate to the landing of herring, mackerel and horse mackerel in designated ports, the keeping and production of documents relating to the catch, the procedures for weighing of fresh and frozen fish, and the labelling of frozen fish.

Article 9 sets out the penalties for an offence contained in this Order, and article 10 contains provisions relating to the recovery of fines.

Articles 11 to 14 set out the powers of British sea-fishery officers in relation to the enforcement of this Order.

Article 19 contains a revocation.

An impact assessment of the effect that this Order will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Sea Fisheries Conservation Division, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.