Paragraph 3 Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries CommitteeI1
England and Wales
The Byelawsf1 of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee are amended as follows.
In Byelaw 12 (Restrictions on Fishing for Bivalve Molluscan Shellfish)—
omit paragraph 1 b) and the “or” following it;
after paragraph 3, insert “References in this Byelaw to bivalve molluscan shellfish do not include cockles.”
In Byelaw 13 (Cockles – Minimum Size), at the end insert “This Byelaw does not apply in the Specified Area defined in article 2 of and Schedule 1 to F1the Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024.”
In Byelaw 13A (Cockles and Mussels – Management of the Fishery)—
omit “cockles and” and “cockles or” in each place these occur, including in the heading;
in paragraph 1, omit “cockle (Cerastoderma edule) or”;
F2in paragraphs 2 and 3, in both places it occurs, omit “cockle or”.
Byelaw 14 (Cockle Fishery – Seasonal Closure) is revoked.
In Byelaw 16 (Shell Fishery – Temporary Closure), at the end insert “This Byelaw does not apply in relation to cockles”.
In Byelaw 17 (Re-Deposit of Shellfish), omit “, and in re-depositing cockles, in accordance with this byelaw, shall spread them thinly and evenly over the beds”.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in Sch. 3 para. 3(3) substituted (1.8.2025) by The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Minimum Landing Size and Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/815), arts. 1(2), 13(2)
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Words in Sch. 3 para. 3(4)(c) substituted (1.8.2025) by The Amendments to Subordinate Legislation (Minimum Landing Size and Miscellaneous Corrections) (Wales) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/815), arts. 1(2), 13(3)
Commencement
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Sch. 3 para. 3 in force at 10.7.2024, see art. 1(2)(a)
Footnotes
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From 1 April 2010, the Byelaws of the former North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee have effect as if made by the Welsh Ministers in a statutory instrument in relation to the same area of Wales as the area to which that byelaw originally applied by virtue of article 13(3) of and Schedule 4 to the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/630 (C. 42)).