Fisheries Act 2020
Fisheries Act 2020 (2020 c. 22)
- Fisheries Act 2020 (2020 c. 22)
- Fisheries objectives, fisheries statements and fisheries management plans
- 1 Fisheries objectives
- 2 Joint fisheries statement
- 3 Joint fisheries statement: procedure
- 4 Secretary of State fisheries statement
- 5 Secretary of State fisheries statement: procedure
- 6 Fisheries management plans: duty to comply with proposals in JFS
- 7 Fisheries management plans: power to depart from proposals in JFS
- 8 Fisheries management plans: procedure
- 9 Fisheries management plans: transitional provision
- 10 Effect of fisheries statements and fisheries management plans
- 11 Reports on fisheries statements and fisheries management plans
- Access to British fisheries and regulation of foreign fishing boats
- 12 Access to British fisheries by foreign fishing boats
- 13 Regulation of foreign fishing boats
- Licensing of fishing boats
- 14 British fishing boats required to be licensed
- 15 Power to grant licences in respect of British fishing boats
- 16 Foreign fishing boats required to be licensed if within British fishery limits
- 17 Power to grant licences in respect of foreign fishing boats
- 18 Further provision about licences
- Access and licensing: offences and consequential amendments
- 19 Penalties for offences
- 20 Offences by bodies corporate etc
- 21 Jurisdiction of court to try offences
- 22 Minor and consequential amendments
- Fishing opportunities
- 23 Power of Secretary of State to determine fishing opportunities
- 24 Duties relating to a determination of fishing opportunities
- 25 Distribution of fishing opportunities
- 26 Duties to ensure fishing opportunities not exceeded
- 27 Sale of English fishing opportunities
- Discard prevention charging schemes
- 28 Discard prevention charging schemes
- 29 Meaning of “chargeable person” and “unauthorised catch of sea fish”
- 30 Catches subject to a charge ignored for certain regulatory purposes
- 31 Charge collectors
- 32 Discard prevention charging schemes: supplementary provision
- Grants and charges
- 33 Financial assistance: powers of Secretary of State
- 34 Charges: powers of Marine Management Organisation
- 35 Sea Fish Industry Authority: fees for services provided for industry in EU
- Powers to make further provision
- 36 Power to make provision about fisheries, aquaculture etc
- 37 Section 36: interpretation
- 38 Power to make provision about aquatic animal diseases
- 39 Scope of regulations under section 36 or 38
- 40 Scope of regulations under section 36 or 38 where consent obtained
- 41 Procedural requirements for regulations under section 36 or 38
- 42 Powers of Scottish Ministers, Welsh Ministers and NI department
- Miscellaneous
- 43 Agency arrangements between sea fish licensing authorities
- 44 Foreign fishing boats that are exclusively Faroe Islands-regulated
- 45 Legislative competence of Senedd Cymru
- 46 Interpretation of Welsh legislation
- 47 Conservation of Seals
- 48 Amendments of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
- 49 Retained direct EU legislation: minor and consequential amendments
- Final provisions
- 50 Amendments that could have been made under existing powers
- 51 Regulations
- 52 Interpretation
- 53 Extent
- 54 Commencement
- 55 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Fisheries statements and management plans: preparation and publication
- PART 1 Joint fisheries statement
- Introductory
- Consultation
- Requirement to lay consultation draft before appropriate legislature
- Publication of the relevant document
- PART 2 Secretary of State fisheries statement
- Introductory
- Consultation
- Requirement to lay consultation draft before Parliament
- Publication of the relevant document
- PART 3 Fisheries management plans
- Introductory
- Consultation
- Publication of the relevant document
- SCHEDULE 2 Regulation of foreign fishing boats
- PART 1 England and Wales
- Scallops (Irish Sea) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1984
- Undersized Velvet Crabs Order 1989
- Sea Fish (Specified Sea Area) (Regulation of Nets and Prohibition of Fishing Methods) Order 1989
- Lobsters and Crawfish (Prohibition of Fishing and Landing) Order 2000
- Undersized Edible Crabs Order 2000
- Sea Fish (Specified Sea Areas) (Regulation of Nets and Other Fishing Gear) Order 2001
- Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls Order 2001
- Shrimp Fishing Nets Order 2002
- Shellfish (Specified Sea Area) (Prohibition of Fishing Methods) (Wales) Order 2003
- Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls Order 2003
- Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (Wales) Order 2003
- South-west Territorial Waters (Prohibition of Pair Trawling) Order 2004
- Tope (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 2008
- Shrimp Fishing Nets (Wales) Order 2008
- Tope (Prohibition of Fishing) (Wales) Order 2008
- Scallop Fishing (Wales) (No 2) Order 2010
- Cockles and Mussels (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2011
- Scallop Fishing (England) Order 2012
- Scallop Dredging Operations (Tracking Devices) (Wales) Order 2012
- Specified Crustaceans (Prohibition on Fishing, Landing, Sale and Carriage) (Wales) Order 2015
- Whelk Fishing (Wales) Order 2019
- PART 2 Scotland
- The Lobsters and Crawfish (Prohibition of Fishing and Landing) (Scotland) Order 1999
- The Sea Fish (Specified Sea Areas) (Regulation of Nets and Other Fishing Gear) (Scotland) Order 2000
- The Prohibition of Fishing for Scallops (Scotland) Order 2003
- The Shrimp Fishing Nets (Scotland) Order 2004
- The Sharks, Skates and Rays (Prohibition of Fishing, Trans-shipment and Landing) (Scotland) Order 2012
- The Regulation of Scallop Fishing (Scotland) Order 2017
- The Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (Scotland) Order 2017
- The Specified Crustaceans (Prohibition on Landing, Sale and Carriage) (Scotland) Order 2017
- The Sea Fish (Prohibited Methods of Fishing) (Firth of Clyde) Order 2019
- PART 3 Northern Ireland
- The Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993
- The Razor Shells (Prohibition of Fishing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
- The Crabs and Lobsters (Minimum Size) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000
- The Conservation of Scallops Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008
- The Edible Crabs (Conservation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020
- The Edible Crabs (Undersized) Order (Northern Ireland) 2020
- SCHEDULE 3 Sea fishing licences: further provision
- Power to attach conditions to sea fishing licence
- Power to vary, suspend or revoke sea fishing licence etc
- Power to obtain information
- Duty to comply with request of another sea fish licensing authority
- Use of licensing functions to limit fishing activity
- Power to arrange for licensing functions to be exercised by others
- Regulations about the licensing of fishing boats
- Power of Secretary of State under paragraph 7 where consent obtained
- Interpretation
- SCHEDULE 4 Access and licensing: minor and consequential amendments
- PART 1 Access to British fisheries by foreign fishing boats
- Sea Fish Industry Act 1962
- Sea Fisheries Act 1968
- Fishery Limits Act 1976
- Subordinate legislation made under section 2 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976
- Fishery Limits Act 1976 (Guernsey) Order 1989
- PART 2 Licensing of fishing boats
- Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967
- Fishery Limits Act 1976
- Fisheries Act 1981
- Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1992
- Government of Wales Act 2006
- Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
- Sea Fish (Specified Manx Waters) Licensing Order 1990
- Sea Fish Licensing Order 1992
- Sea Fish Licensing (Time at Sea) (Principles) Order 1993
- Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) Regulations 1994
- Scotland Act (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 1999
- Scotland Act 1998 (Concurrent Functions) Order 1999
- Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2011
- Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (England) Regulations 2012
- Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014
- Sea Fish Licensing (England) Order 2015
- Sea Fish Licensing (Wales) Order 2019
- Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2019
- Sea Fish Licensing (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
- Sea Fish Licensing (Foreign Vessels) (EU Exit) (Scotland) Order 2019
- Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
- Fishing Boats Designation (EU Exit) (Scotland) Order 2019
- PART 3 Transitional provision
- Licences in respect of British fishing boats
- Licence conditions
- Regulations
- Continuity of the law
- SCHEDULE 5 Sale of Welsh fishing opportunities
- SCHEDULE 6 Financial assistance: powers of devolved authorities
- Power of the Scottish Ministers
- Power of the Welsh Ministers
- Power of the Northern Ireland department
- Financial assistance: consequential amendments
- Transitional provision
- SCHEDULE 7 Imposition of charges: powers of devolved authorities
- Power of Scottish Ministers
- Power of Welsh Ministers
- Power of Northern Ireland department
- SCHEDULE 8 Powers to make further provision: devolved authorities
- PART 1 Scottish Ministers
- Power to make provision about fisheries, aquaculture etc
- Paragraph 1: interpretation
- Power to make provision about aquatic animal diseases
- Scope of regulations under paragraph 1 or 3
- Procedural requirements
- PART 2 Welsh Ministers
- Power to make provision about fisheries, aquaculture etc
- Paragraph 6: interpretation
- Power to make provision about aquatic animal diseases
- Scope of regulations under paragraph 6 or 8
- Procedural requirements
- PART 3 The Northern Ireland department
- Power to make provision about fisheries, aquaculture etc
- Paragraph 11: interpretation
- Power to make provision about aquatic animal diseases
- Scope of regulations under paragraph 11 or 13
- Procedural requirements
- SCHEDULE 9 Conservation of seals
- PART 1 Amendments of the Conservation of Seals Act 1970
- PART 2 Amendments of the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985
- SCHEDULE 10 Amendments of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
- PART 1 General powers and duties of the Marine Management Organisation
- PART 2 Powers relating to the exploitation of sea fisheries resources
- SCHEDULE 11 Retained direct EU legislation: minor and consequential amendments
- Introduction
- Common Fisheries Policy Regulation
- Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1393/2014
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1395/2014
- Regulation (EU) 2016/2336
- Regulation (EU) 2017/1004
- Regulation (EU) 2017/2403
- Regulation (EU) 2018/973
- Regulation (EU) 2019/472
- Regulation (EU) 2019/1241
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2238
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2239
- Council Regulation (EU) 2020/123
- Transitional provision
- Consequential amendments
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