Article 3 The Isles of Scilly Inshore Fisheries and Conservation DistrictI1

England and Wales

(1)

There is to be an inshore fisheries and conservation district known as the Isles of Scilly Inshore Fisheries and Conservation District (“the district”).

(2)

The district is the area that consists of—

(a)

the area of the Council of the Isles of Scilly; and

(b)

so much of the sea adjacent to that area as lies to a distance of 6 nautical miles from the 1983 baselines (see paragraph (3)).

(3)

In paragraph (2)—

(a)

“the 1983 baselines” means the baselines for the measurement of the breadth of the territorial sea of the United Kingdom as they existed at 25th January 1983 in accordance with the Territorial Waters Order in Council 1964^f1; and

(b)

“nautical mile” means an international nautical mile of 1,852 metres.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 3 in force at 1.10.2010, see art. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1: 1965 III p.6452A, amended by the Territorial Waters (Amendment) Order in Council 1979, 1979 III p.2866. These baselines are used in the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1983 (S.I. 1983/253) to designate, for the purposes of section 2(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976, the areas in which fishing boats registered in Member States other than the United Kingdom may fish.