Paragraph 1

United Kingdom

(1)

Section 26 of the M1Sea Fisheries Act 1868 (sea fishing boats within British waters to have official papers) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

for the words “Part II of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988” there shall be substituted the words “ the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 ”; and

(b)

for the words “that Part of that Act” there shall be substituted the words “ registration regulations under section 3 of that Act ”.

(3)

In subsection (5), in the definition of “foreign sea-fishing boat”, for paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) there shall be substituted the following—

“(a)
is not registered in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, and
(b)
is not wholly owned by persons qualified to own British ships for the purposes of the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993.”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1868 c.45

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(1), 316(2), Sch. 12 (with s. 312(1), Sch. 14 para. 1) as amended (1.6.2004) by Merchant Shipping (Confirmation of Legislation and Repeals) (Jersey) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1284), art. 3