The Ministers may direct that a substance or article which is capable of being produced wholly or partly from either white fish or herring or both shall be treated for the purposes of sections 17 and 31 of this Act and any instrument made under or by virtue of either of them as being wholly or partly produced from one of those descriptions of fish, and may also give directions with respect to the collection of sums payable by way of levy or contribution in respect of that substance or article in pursuance of any such instrument and the application of sums so paid in any manner specified in the directions, whether or not the application of those sums in that manner is authorised by the relevant provision or instrument.
Where an offence under this Act which has been committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(1)Any power of any Minister or Ministers to make orders, schemes or regulations (other than regulations under section 18(1) of this Act) under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.
(2)Subject to section 52(1) of this Act and to subsection (3) below any power conferred by this Act to make an order or scheme includes power to vary or revoke the order or scheme by a subsequent order or scheme, as the case may be.
(3)Subsection (2) above shall not apply to an order revoking a scheme under section 7(5) or section 31(4) of this Act or to an order under section 10(2) of this Act.
(1)In this Act the expression " the Ministers " means, subject to section 53 of this Act and to subsection (2) below, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland.
(2)In Part I and section 55 of this Act the expression " the Ministers " does not include the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland at any time when Part I of this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
(1)In this Act the expression " white fish " means, subject to sections 17(7) and 49(7) of this Act, fish (whether fresh or preserved) of any kind found in the sea except herring, salmon and migratory trout, and also includes shellfish, and references to white fish shall be construed as including references to parts of white fish.
(2)In subsection (1) above, " salmon" means any of the salmon species and " migratory trout" means any species of trout which migrates to and from the sea.
(1)In this Act references to Wales include Monmouthshire.
(2)Any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended by or under any other enactment.
(1)The enactments specified in Parts I and II of Schedule 6 to this Act (of which those specified in Part II of that Schedule are obsolete enactments relating to herring) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of those Parts of that Schedule, and the Order specified in Part III of that Schedule is hereby revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Part of that Schedule.
(2)In so far as any instrument made or other thing whatsoever done under any enactment repealed and re-enacted by this Act could have been made or done under the corresponding enactment in this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal of that enactment but shall have effect as if made or done under the corresponding enactment.
(3)Where any Act or any document refers, either expressly or by implication, to an enactment repealed and re-enacted by this Act, the reference shall except where the context otherwise requires, be construed as referring, or as including a reference, to the corresponding enactment in this Act.
(4)Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section 38 of the [1889 c. 63.] Interpretation Act 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals).
(1)This Act may be cited as the Sea Fish Industry Act 1970.
(2)This Act shall, subject to subsection (3) below, come into force on the expiration of a period of two months beginning with the date on which it is passed.
(3)The repeals by this Act of paragraph (b) and in paragraph (c) of the definition of " the Ministers " in section 33(2) of the [1962 c. 31.] Sea Fish Industry Act 1962 shall come into force upon the day appointed for the repeal of section 18 of that Act under section 23(2) of the [1968 c. 77.] Sea Fisheries Act 1968.