{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-western-and-north-wales-sea-fisheries-district-order-1999/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1043",
  "legislation_title": "The North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries District Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-western-and-north-wales-sea-fisheries-district-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Local fisheries committee",
  "text": "(1) There shall continue to be a local fisheries committee constituted for the regulation of the sea fisheries carried on within the North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries District.\n(2) The committee shall be a joint committee of the councils referred to in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and shall consist of thirty-eight members. The number of members appointed by each constituent council shall be the number which is set out in column 2 of the Schedule opposite the reference to such council. As for the additional members of the committee, one person shall be appointed by the Environment Agency and seventeen persons jointly by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (5) of this article, those persons who were members of the committee immediately before the coming into force of this Order, with the exception of those members appointed by Cheshire County Council, shall continue to hold office until the date specified for that purpose in the instrument appointing them. Any member appointed after this Order comes into force shall come into office on the day specified for that purpose in the instrument appointing him and shall hold office for the period specified in that instrument.\n(4) Retiring members shall be eligible for re-appointment.\n(5) Where for any reason whatsoever there occurs a casual vacancy in the committee, the body by whom the vacating member was appointed may fill the vacancy by the appointment of a new member. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the committee forthwith to notify every such vacancy to the appointing body.\n(6) No act or proceeding of the committee shall be questioned on account of any vacancy in the committee, and no defect in the appointment of any person acting as a member of the committee shall vitiate any proceedings of the committee in which he has taken part.\n(7) Except as provided by section 10 of the Act, no council shall make, vary or revoke any regulation or standing order respecting the quorum or proceedings of the committee or as to the area within which it is to exercise its authority.\n(8) Subject to any restrictions or conditions as to expenditure made under section 10 of the Act, the committee shall not be required to submit its acts or proceedings to any council for approval.\n(9) The committee shall hold one annual meeting in each year for the transaction of general business, in addition to any special or adjourned meetings.\n(10) Eight members shall be a quorum at any meeting of the committee.\n(11) The committee may from time to time appoint a sub-committee or sub-committees and may assign to such sub-committee or sub-committees such duties as it may from time to time determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1043/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:43.543095+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}