Fisheries Act 1981E+W
16. The Treasury approval requirements under sections 15 and 16 (schemes of financial assistance and administration) of the Fisheries Act 1981 M1 cease to apply in so far as the functions under those sections are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales or the Welsh zone M2.
Marginal Citations
M11981 c. 29; there are amendments to sections 15 and 16 which are not relevant to this instrument. The functions of the Minister under sections 15 and 16, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the 1999 Order, and are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006.
M2See article 4 of the Welsh Zone (Boundaries and Transfer of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/760) as to the functions of the Welsh Ministers in relation to the Welsh Zone. The functions of a Minister of the Crown under sections 15 and 16, so far as exercisable in relation to the Welsh Zone, were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by articles 4(1)(e), 5(2) and (3), 6(2) and 7 of that Order.