Article 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Sandeels Licensing Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st July 1989.

In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;

• “sandeels” means sea fish of the family Ammodytidae;

• “Scottish inshore waters” means the sea adjacent to the coast of Scotland and to the landward of a limit of six miles from the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured, up to the mean high water-mark of ordinary spring tides;

• “ICES” followed by a roman numeral and a letter shall be construed as a reference to whichever of the statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea(^f1) is identified by that roman numeral and letter; and

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