UK Offence Report

The Solent Oyster Fishery (Variation) (Clams) Order 1996

UK Statutory Instrument 1996 No. 828 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
18 March 1996
In force from
12 April 1996
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
Order under section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order varies the Solent Oyster Fishery Order 1980 by conferring on the local fisheries committee for the Southern Sea Fisheries District (“the Committee”) the right additionally to regulate a fishery for clams (article 3). The Order also makes the following variations of substance— a the area of the fishery is amended by reference to a new definitive map (article 4); b the requirement to possess a licence when handpicking oysters from the shore is removed (article 6); c a new article relating to the issue and use of licences for clams is inserted (article 7); d a toll of £30.00 for the issue of a licence to take clams is introduced (article 8); and e provisions have been introduced to preserve the rights of navigation bodies and to enable the Committee to grant exemptions to persons who wish to dredge, fish for or take oysters or clams for scientific purposes (article 11).

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