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(1)Section 5 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84) (power to restrict fishing for sea fish) is amended as follows.
(2)For subsection (1) substitute—
“(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, the appropriate national authority may make an order—
(a)prohibiting, in any area specified in the order and either for a period so specified or without limitation of time—
(i)all fishing for sea fish;
(ii)fishing for any description of sea fish specified in the order;
(iii)fishing for sea fish, or for any description of sea fish specified in the order, by any method so specified;
(b)restricting, in any area specified in the order and either for a period so specified or without limitation of time, the amount of sea fish, or sea fish of a description specified in the order, that may, in any period so specified, be taken by—
(i)any person;
(ii)any fishing boat.
A person who contravenes any prohibition or restriction imposed by an order under this section shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection.
(1A)Where any fishing boat is used in contravention of any prohibition or restriction imposed by an order under this section, the master, the owner and the charterer (if any) shall each be guilty of an offence under subsection (1) above.
(1B)An order under this section which prohibits in any area—
(a)fishing for sea fish, or for any description of sea fish specified in the order, or
(b)fishing for sea fish, or for any description of sea fish specified in the order, by any method so specified,
may provide that any fishing gear, or any fishing gear of a description specified in the order, of any fishing boat in that area must be stowed in accordance with provision made by the order.
(1C)An order under this section restricting the amount of sea fish of any description that may be caught in a period specified in the order may provide that, for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) above, any sea fish of that description that, after being caught in that period, is returned to the sea as soon as that amount is exceeded is not to be treated as having been caught in contravention of the restriction imposed by the order.”
(3)For subsection (8) substitute—
“(8)The only provision that may be made by an order under this section in relation to an area outside British fishery limits, or an area within the Scottish zone or the Northern Ireland zone, is provision applying to—
(a)a British fishing boat, other than a Scottish fishing boat or a Northern Ireland fishing boat, that is registered in the United Kingdom; or
(b)in so far as the order relates to fishing for salmon or migratory trout, a fishing boat which is British-owned but not registered under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.
(9)In this section—
“the appropriate national authority” means—
in relation to Wales (within the meaning of the Government of Wales Act 2006), the Welsh Ministers;
in any other case, the Secretary of State;
“Northern Ireland fishing boat” means a fishing boat which is registered in the United Kingdom under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Northern Ireland as the port to which the boat is to be treated as belonging;
“Northern Ireland zone” has the meaning given by the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (see section 98 of that Act).”
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I1S. 198 partly in force; s. 198 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent see s. 324(1)(c)
I2S. 198 in force at 12.1.2010 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 8
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