Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 2074

SEA FISHERIES
CONSERVATION OF SEA FISH
The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Revocation) Order 1998

Made
21st August 1998

Laid before Parliament
4th September 1998

Coming into force
7th September 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), 15(3), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Revocation) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 7th September 1998.

Revocation

2.  The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1998(2) is hereby revoked.

Jeff Rooker
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
19th August 1998

Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
21st August 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
17th August 1998

Tony Beeton
Assistant Secretary, Northern Ireland Office
18th August 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes the Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1998 which prohibits fishing for cod in sea areas ICES Statistical Divisions VIIb, c, d, e, f, g, h, j and k by certain British fishing boats (article 2).


(1)
1967 c. 84; section 5(1) was substituted by section 22(1) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29); section 15(3) was substituted by paragraph 38(3) of Schedule 1 to the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) and amended by paragraph 16(1) of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86); section 22(2)(a) which contains a definition of “the Ministers” for the purposes of sections 5 and 15(3) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b).

(2)
S.I. 1998/1195.