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This Order varies the provisions of the Sea Fisheries District Orders for the Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Eastern, Kent and Essex, North–Eastern, Northumberland, North Western and North Wales, Southern and South Wales Sea Fisheries Districts by providing that the district shall comprise so much of the sea as is within six miles of the baselines (formerly three miles).

This Order also substitutes a new definition of “the baselines” to comply with the judgment of the European Court of Justice in Re Territorial Sea: EC Commission v United Kingdom (Case 146/89) [1991] 3 CMLR 649.

Copies of the orders which created the Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Eastern, Kent and Essex, Northumberland and South Wales Sea Fisheries Districts are available from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR.