# The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1991

S.I. 1991/2196 · made 1 October 1991

This Order varies the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989, as varied, (“the principal Order”) which prohibits fishing, subject to exceptions, by British fishing boats in specified areas of sea for sea fish (other than salmon or migratory trout), unless authorised by a licence.

Made under: Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (Section 4, Section 15, Section 20, Section 22)

## Introductory text

SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH
Made 1st Ocotber 1991
Laid before Parliament 3rd October 1991
Coming into force 4th October 1991
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4, 15(3), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

## 1 Title and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 4th October 1991.

## 2 Variation of the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989

The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989 shall be varied—
(a) by omitting article 4 thereof (retention on board of fish);
(b) by omitting Schedule 3 thereto (areas of sea and descriptions of sea fish caught therein to which retention on board provisions apply).

## 3 Revocation

The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1990 is hereby revoked.

## Signature

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 30th September 1991.
L.S.
Derek Andrews
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Strathclyde
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
1st October 1991
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
30th September 1991
Peter Brooke
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1st October 1991

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989, as varied, (“the principal Order”) which prohibits fishing, subject to exceptions, by British fishing boats in specified areas of sea for sea fish (other than salmon or migratory trout), unless authorised by a licence.
This Order removes the provision in the principal Order which permitted the retention on board a fishing boat of a quantity of one or more of the descriptions of sea fish specified in an entry in Schedule 3 to that Order not exceeding 10% by weight of the total catch of sea fish on board the boat, the fishing for which was for the time being prohibited, caught in a specified statistical division of ICES VII as a by-catch in the course of lawful fishing for another description of sea fish (article 2). In consequence, section 4(9A) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 requires such a by-catch of fish to be returned to the sea forthwith.
This Order revokes the Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1990 which is spent (article 3).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2196 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1991
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