UK Offence Report

Transitional provision

regulation 8 of The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

This offence was read from the text as made, and no revised version was available, so a later revocation could not be ruled out. Check the current text at legislation.gov.uk.

What the provision says

8 Notwithstanding the revocation of the Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) Regulations 1994 under regulation7, any licence granted or notice effected under those Regulations continues to have effect for the purposes of any investigation or legal proceedings relating to any acts or omissions which occurred before 1stApril 2011 and which constitute an offence under the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967.

Text as made, from legislation.gov.uk. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This is the text as originally made; later amendments are not shown here.

Who it binds, and what has to be proved

Binds
a person
Conduct
breaching the provision
Fault element
Strict liability
Burden of proof
No statutory defence — prosecution proves everything

The prosecution must prove that the conduct happened. This is a strict liability offence as drafted: the provision uses no word of intention, knowledge, recklessness or negligence, so there is no need to show that a person meant to do it, knew about it, or was careless.

Intention, knowledge and carelessness are irrelevant to guilt. They may still matter a great deal to sentence.

The provision states no defence, so the prosecution bears the burden on every element of the offence.

Classifier’s reasoning: no word of intention, knowledge, recklessness or negligence in the offence or its provision.

What would breach regulation 8?

These are illustrations, not law. They are generated from the provision’s own words to show the shape of the offence. Whether any particular conduct is caught depends on the full text, on any amendment since, and on the facts.

  1. Doing what the provision prohibits, or failing to do what it requires under the Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2011.

Penalty

Mode of trial
Not determined
Maximum fine
Not determined
Maximum prison (summary)
Not determined

no penalty is stated in this instrument; it may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence.

No penalty was determined from this instrument. It may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence. Absence of a figure here is not evidence that the offence carries no penalty.

Sentencing

Offences of this kind are usually sentenced under the guidelines below. This is a mapping by subject, not a finding about this provision, and the links go to a search of the Sentencing Council’s own site.

Prosecution figures

No published per-offence figure was found for this provision, and it could not be matched to a Ministry of Justice offence code. Offences created by statutory instrument very largely do not have one. Absence of a figure is not evidence that the offence is unused.

Status and lifecycle

Current status
Status not determined
Made
9 February 2011
In force from
1 April 2011
Extent
Not stated

How this was established: read from the text as made; no revised version available, so later revocation could not be ruled out.

What the instrument is for

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — the explanatory note published with the instrument, © Crown copyright.

These Regulations make provision in accordance with section 4B of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c.84) (“the 1967 Act”) for the manner in which a sea fishing licence under section 4 of that Act or a licence to receive trans-shipped fish under section 4A of that Act may be granted and in which a notice of variation, revocation or suspension of any such licence may be effected in accordance with section4(9) or 4A(10), respectively, of the 1967 Act. The Regulations extend to Scotland and the Scottish zone and apply to Scottish fishing boats wherever they may be (regulation1(3)). Regulation 3(1) provides for the granting of a licence by the Scottish Ministers to the master, owner or charterer of a Scottish fishing boat by communicating it, by a method specified, to that person or to a person nominated by the master, owner or charterer to receive it (“a nominee”). Regulation 3(2) provides for the effecting of a notice by communicating it to a nominee or to the master, owner or charterer of the Scottish fishing boat. Regulation 3(3) to (5) provides for the effecting of notices of variation, suspension or revocation of all sea fishing licences or all sea fishing licences of a particular type granted by the Scottish Ministers by publishing a notice in a newspaper or on the Scottish Government website (http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/17681/licencevariations). Regulation 4 specifies the time at which a licence or notice communicated in accordance with regulation 3 will be treated as having been delivered or given, according to the method of communication adopted. Regulation 5 specifies the time at which a licence or notice treated as delivered or given in accordance with regulation 4 will have effect, according to the method of communication adopted. Regulation 6 makes provision for the time at which a licence or a notice will take effect where— a more than one method of communicating it is employed; and b the licence or notice states that it will take effect later than provided for under regulation5. Regulation7 revokes the Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) Regulations 1994 (S.I.1994/2813) insofar as they extend to Scotland, and regulation8 contains a transitional provision in consequence of that revocation. A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from Marine Scotland, Victoria Quay, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.

Read the full note and every offence in this instrument

What Parliament said

Mentions of this instrument in Hansard. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

How this was identified as an offence

Everything above rests on the judgement that this provision creates a criminal offence, rather than mentioning one. That judgement is made by rule, from the words of the provision, and this is the rule that made it — with a confidence of 0.75.

Basis
the provision says the conduct “constitutes an offence”
Confidence
0.75 of 1.00

A provision that states a penalty for an offence created elsewhere can read very like one that creates an offence, and the rules can mistake the one for the other. If the text quoted above sets a penalty for something made an offence by another provision, treat the classification on this page with that in mind, and read the instrument.

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