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Statutory Instruments
SEA FISHERIES
FISHERY LIMITS
Made
8th December 1992
Laid before Parliament
10th December 1992
Coming into force
31st December 1992
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State concerned with sea fishing in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales respectively, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1), 6(2) and 8 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation (Variation) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 31st December 1992.
2. The Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983(3) shall be varied by substituting for the definition of the baselines the following definition-
"the baselines" means the baselines as they existed at 25th January 1983 in accordance with the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964(4)
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 3rd December 1992.
L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
3rd December 1992
Patrick Mayhew
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
3rd December 1992
Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
8th December 1992
This note is not part of the Order
This Order varies the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983 ("the principal Order") which designates, for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976, member States and the areas within British fishery limits within which, and descriptions of sea fish for which, fishing boats registered in each member State may fish. The principal Order implements Article 6 of, and Annex I to, Council Regulation (EEC) No. 170/83 establishing a Community system for the conservation and management of fishery resources (OJ No. L24, 27.1.83, p.1).
This Order substitutes a new definition of "the baselines" in article 2 of the principal Order to comply with the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Re Territorial Sea: EC Commission v United Kingdom (Case 146/89) [1991] 3 CMLR 649.
In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.
1965 III p.6452A, amended by 1979 III p.2866.
