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Statutory Instruments
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S.I. No. 33 of 2007
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Fishing Opportunities and Associated
Conditions Regulations 2007
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I, John Browne, Minister of State at the
Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, in exercise of
the powers conferred on me by section 14 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime
Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No.8 of 2006), and the Marine (Delegation of
Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2006 (No. 167 of 2006), and for the
purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No
41/20061 of 21 December 2006 fixing for 2007 the fishing
opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks and groups
of fish stocks, applicable in Community waters and, for Community vessels,
in waters where catch limitations are required, hereby make the following
Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be
cited as the Fishing Opportunities and Associated Conditions Regulations
2007.
2. In these Regulations -
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“Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 41/20061 of
21 December 2006 and any future Regulation of the Council or the Commission
made after the making of these Regulations, which amends, extends, replaces
or consolidates (with or without modification) the Council Regulation (as
defined herein);
3. A word or expression that is
used in these Regulations, and is also used in the Council Regulation, has,
unless the contrary indication appears, the same meaning in these
Regulations as it has in the Council Regulation.
4. A contravention of any
provision of the Council Regulation relating to:
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(a) sea-fishing boats within the
exclusive fishery limits of the State; or
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(b) an Irish sea-fishing boat
wherever it may be; or
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(c) any person engaged in buying,
handling, weighing, trans-shipping, transporting, landing, processing,
storing, documenting or selling fish within the State or the exclusive
fishery limits of the State,
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or a failure to comply with an obligation
imposed by the Council Regulation so relating, other than an obligation
imposed on the State, shall, for the purposes of subsection (3) of section
14 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 , be deemed to be
a contravention of these Regulations and the provisions of that Act relating
to a contravention of a regulation under the said section 14 shall
accordingly apply thereto.
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GIVEN under my
hand,
30 January,
2007
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John Browne
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Minister of
State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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(This note is not part of the instrument
and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)
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These Regulations provide for the provisions
of Council Regulation (EC) No. 41/2006 of 21 December 2006 fixing for 2007
the fishing opportunities and associated conditions for certain fish stocks
and groups of fish stocks applicable in Community waters and, for Community
vessels, in waters where catch limitations are required.
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1 O.J. L 15/1 of 20.1.07
1 O.J. L 15/1 of 20.1.07
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