Article 1 Title, commencement and interpretationF1I1

This Order may be cited as the Undersized Velvet Crabs Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st July 1989.

In this Order—

• “the Act” means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;

• “velvet crab” means crab of the species Liocarcinus puber;

• “size”, in relation to a velvet crab, means the width of the carapace measured across the broadest part, excluding spines, of the back;

• F2“the English zone” means the sea within British fishery limits other than—

  1. (a)

     the Scottish zone,

  2. (b)

     the Northern Ireland zone, and

  3. (c)

     the Welsh zone;

• “the Northern Ireland zone” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.