# The Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1998

S.I. 1998/207 · made 4 February 1998

This Order varies the Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1997 to prohibit, during the period beginning immediately before 28 February 1998 and ending immediately before 1st January 1999, fishing for sole, plaice and certain other species of fish in certain sea areas.

Made under: Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (Section 5, Section 20, Section 22)

## Introductory text

This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an error in S.I. 1997/3054 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
SEA FISHERIES
Made 4th February 1998
Laid before Parliament 4th February 1998
Coming into force 26th February 1998
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 5(1), 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 Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 26th February 1998.

## 2 Variation

(1) The Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1997 shall be varied in accordance with paragraph (2) of this article.
(2) In article 2 paragraph (2) sub-paragraph (b), for the words “beginning with the date of coming into force of this Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1998” there shall be substituted the words “beginning immediately before 28th February 1998 and ending immediately before 1st January 1999”.

## Signature

Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
3rd February 1998
Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
3rd February 1998
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
3rd February 1998
Dubs
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland
4th February 1998

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order varies the Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1997 to prohibit, during the period beginning immediately before 28 February 1998 and ending immediately before 1st January 1999, fishing for sole, plaice and certain other species of fish in certain sea areas.

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