Fishery Limits Act 1976

Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84)

16(1)In sections 1(3) and (4), 3(2), 5(2) and (8) and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, for the words " the fishery limits of the British Islands " substitute the words " British fishery limits ".

(2)In section 11(2) and (3) of that Act (penalties) for the reference to an offence under section 4 of that Act substitute a reference to an offence under section 4(3) or (6).

(3)In section 15(2) of that Act (powers of seizure of sea-fishery officers) for paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute the following paragraphs—

“(b)any fish caught in contravention of a prohibition imposed by an order under section 4 or 5 of this Act, where the fish are on the fishing boat used in contravention of the prohibition or are in the ownership or custody, or under the control, of the owner, the master or the charterer (if any) of the fishing boat;

(c)any net or other fishing gear used in contravention of a prohibition imposed by an order under the said section 4 or 5 ;”.

(4)In section 18 of that Act (enforcement of orders in relation to salmon and migratory trout) in subsection (1) for the words " section 4 of this Act, or any order under section 5 or 6 thereof " substitute the words " any order under section 4, 5 or 6 of this Act ".

(5)In the said section 18 in subsection (2) for the words "the said section 4, or any order under the said section 5 or 6," substitute the words " any order under the said section 4, 5 or 6 ".

(6)Section 19(2) of that Act is repealed.

(7)In section 23(1) of that Act (certain exceptions for waters adjacent to Northern Ireland)—

(a)for the words " Sections 4(9) and 5(2) " substitute the words " Section 5(2)" ; and

(b)for the words " such part of the fishery limits of the British Islands as is mentioned in section 4(2) of the Fishery Limits Act 1964" substitute the words " waters within British fishery limits which are adjacent to Northern Ireland and are not nearer to any point on the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to Great Britain or the Isle of Man is measured than to any point on the corresponding Northern Irish baselines ".