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Section 116 Power to give effect to international obligations etc.F7C1

England and Wales

F1(1)

Each of the Ministers shall have power by regulations to provide that the provisions of this Part or of any other enactment relating to the carrying out by the F2appropriate agency of such of its functions as relate to fisheries shall have effect with such modifications as may be prescribed by the regulations for the purpose of F3...—

F4(a)

giving effect to any F5assimilated obligations, or

(b)

F6enabling Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom to give effect to any international agreement to which the United Kingdom is for the time being a party.

(2)

In subsection (1), the reference to functions includes any functions conferred on the appropriate agency by virtue of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 116(1): s. 116 renumbered as s. 116(1) (12.1.2010) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), s. 324(3), Sch. 16 para. 22(a); S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 15(i)

F2

Words in s. 116 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 274(d) (with Sch. 7)

F3

Words in s. 116(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4

S. 116(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5

Word in s. 116(1)(a) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 31(2)(b)

F6

Words in s. 116(1)(b) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(b)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7

Word in s. 116 heading inserted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 4(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Modifications

C1

S. 116 excluded by S.I. 1999/1746, arts. 1(1), 4(1) (with art. 2) (the exclusion coming into force immediately before the principal appointed day (1.7.1999 appointed by S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3))

Notes on Part V

Modifications

C1

Pt. V (ss. 114-116): certain functions transferred to the Environment Agency (subject to other provisions of the amending Act) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 2(1)(a)(v) (with ss. 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3 (with art. 4)