UK Offence Report

The Sea Fishing (Marking and Identification of Passive Fishing Gear and Beam Trawls) (England) Order 2006 (revoked)

UK Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 1549 — creates 2 criminal offences.

2offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
13 June 2006
In force from
10 July 2006
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
Made under
Fisheries Act 1981

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 makes provision for the enforcement of Community restrictions and other obligations relating to the marking and identification of passive gear and beam trawls deployed by fishing vessels as set out in Commission Regulation (EC) No. 356/2005, of 2 March 2005, p.8, OJ L56, as amended. In the context of this Order passive gear means longlines, gillnets, entangling nets, trammel nets, drifting gillnets and any associated anchoring, floating or navigational gear. This Order applies to English and Welsh fishing boats wherever they are, except within the territorial sea, and to all other boats in British fishery limits. British fishery limits are defined as excluding the Scottish zone, the Northern Irish zone and the territorial sea (article 3). This Order comes into force on 10th July 2006. Article 4 of the Order creates offences in respect of breaches of those articles of the Regulation referred to in column 1 of the Schedule to the Order. Penalties are specified for such offences in article 5. Provision is made for the recovery of fines in article 6. The Order confers powers of enforcement on British sea-fishery officers (articles 7 and 8). Article 9 makes provision for the protection of British sea fishery officers and their assistants and article 10 provides for offences and penalties should they be obstructed in the course of their investigations under this Order. Article 11 makes provision in respect of offences by bodies corporate, partnerships and unincorporated associations. Article 12 allows for the admissibility in evidence of records compiled for the purposes of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2847/93. A Regulatory Impact Assessment in relation to this Order has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from Defra, Fishing Industry Management Division, Area 7E, 3-8 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH.

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