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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2019/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Sea Fisheries, Wales\nConservation Of Sea Fish\nMade 9 October 2019\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 11 October 2019\nComing into force 1 November 2019\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (3), and 5(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967,\nand now vested in them, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”).\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of the 1972 Act in relation to the common agricultural policy.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the reference to an EU instrument in regulation 3 to be construed as a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 84,(“the 1967 Act”). Section 1 of the 1967 Act was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 19(1). Section 1(1) of the 1967 Act was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23) (“the 2009 Act”), section 194(1) and (2) and S.I. 1999/1820, article 4, Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 43(1) and (2)(a). Section 1(3) of the 1967 Act was substituted by the 2009 Act, section 194(1) and (4). See section 1(9) for a definition of “the appropriate national authority”. Section 1(9) was inserted by the 2009 Act, section 194(1) and (5) and amended by S.I. 2010/760, article 4(2) and (4). Section 5(1) was substituted by the 2009 Act, section 198(1) and (2). See section 5(9) for a definition of “the appropriate national authority”. Section 5(9) was inserted by the 2009 Act, section 198(3) and amended by S.I. 2010/760, article 4(2) and (4). Section 22(2) of the 1967 Act, which contains a definition of “the Ministers”, was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), sections 19(2)(d) and (3), and 45 and 46, Schedule 5, Part 2 and S.I. 1999/1820, article 4, Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 43(1) and (12), Part 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The functions of the Ministers under sections 1(1) and (3), and 5(1) and so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). Those functions were then further transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). So far as exercisable in relation to the Welsh zone, the functions of the Ministers under sections 1(3), (4) and (6), and 5(1) and (2) of the 1967 Act were transferrred to the Welsh Ministers by article 4(1)(b) of the Welsh Zone (Boundaries and Transfer of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/760)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and was amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) and S.I. 2007/1388."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690 (W. 205). By virtue of paragraph 28(1) of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, this designation has effect as if made under section 59(1) of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/1332/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:24.303844+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."
}