# Sea Fish Industry Act 1962, Section 33: Interpretation.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—
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“land” includes land covered by water;
“migratory trout” means trout which migrate to and from the sea;
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“salmon” includes any fish of the salmon species;
“sea-fish” means fish of any description found in the sea, including shellfish and salmon and migratory trout;
“shellfish” includes crustaceans and molluscs of any kind, and includes any part of a shellfish and any (or any part of any) brood, ware, half-ware or spat of shellfish, and any spawn of shellfish, and the shell, or any part of the shell, of a shellfish, and references in this Act to shellfish of any particular description shall be construed accordingly;
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(2) In this Act . . . “the Ministers”—
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(b) in . . . section eighteen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, . . ., and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Northern Ireland, and
(c) in section seventeen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, . . ., and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and, in relation to Scotland, “the Ministers”, and any reference to one of the Ministers, means the Scottish Ministers.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/31/section/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-industry-act-1962/section-33
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