The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Satellite Monitoring Measures) (Wales) Order 2000 Amendment Regulations 2002

• Citation: S.I. 2002/677 (W.)
• Sections: 8

Section 1 Title, commencement and saving

(1) These Regulations are called the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Satellite Monitoring Measures) (Wales) Order 2000 Amendment Regulations 2002 and come into force on 1st April 2002.

(2) The revocation by regulation 5 of these Regulations of article 4(2) of the Order shall not affect its application in proceedings (whenever occurring) for an offence alleged to have been committed before the coming into force of these Regulations.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations “the Order” means the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Satellite Monitoring Measures) (Wales) Order 2000 .

(2) Expressions used in provisions inserted by these Regulations into the Order are to be interpreted in the same way as if they had been so inserted by an order made under section 30(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 .

Section 3 Amendment of the Order

In article 2(1) (interpretation) of the Order the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted immediately after the definition of “Scottish fishing boat”—

“weekday” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday.

Section 4 Amendment of the Order

(1) Article 3 (satellite tracking of fishing boats) of the Order is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (3), sub-paragraph (b) is deleted and immediately after sub-paragraph (a) there is inserted—

and

(b) subject to paragraphs (4) and (6), be maintained fully operational,

(3) Paragraph (4) is deleted and in its place there is substituted the following paragraphs—

(4) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (3)(b), a satellite tracking device shall not be regarded as fully operational for the purpose of that sub-paragraph during any time when it is failing to operate in accordance with paragraph (5).

(5) A satellite tracking device installed on a fishing boat to which this article applies shall transmit the required information, in the format prescribed by Annex II to Regulation 1489/97, to a Fisheries Monitoring Centre—

(a) where the satellite tracking device is capable of being polled—

(i) at least every two hours; or

(ii) in a case for which a longer maximum interval is specified in Annex I to Regulation 1489/97, at intervals no longer than that maximum; or

(b) where the satellite tracking device is not capable of being polled, at least hourly.

(6) Neither of the following circumstances shall be treated as giving rise to a breach of the requirement in paragraph (3)(b)—

(a) where the device is switched off under the conditions permitted by Annex I to Regulation 1489/97 (stay in port of more than 48 hours, provided the next report is from the same position as the previous one);

(b) where the device is subject to a technical failure or non-function within the meaning of Article 6.2 of Regulation 1489/97 during a time when the fishing boat is either in port or in the course of a fishing trip authorised by that Article.

(7) Throughout any time when—

(a) a relevant British fishing boat or a Scottish fishing boat to which this article applies is not in port, and

(b) the satellite tracking device installed on the boat is failing for any reason to operate in accordance with paragraph (5),

without prejudice to Article 6.1 of Regulation 1489/97 (requirement to communicate information to flag state and, if appropriate, coastal state monitoring centres by other means at least every 24 hours), the required information shall be communicated to the Fisheries Monitoring Centre of the United Kingdom by one of the means specified in that Article at least every two hours.

Section 5 Amendment of the Order

Article 4(2) (offences) of the Order is revoked.

Section 6 Amendment of the Order

In article 5(1) (penalties) of the Order in place of “or (4)” there is inserted “or (7)”.

Section 7 Amendment of the Order

In article 6(3), the words “section 90 of the Magistrates Court Act 1980” are deleted.

Section 8 Amendment of the Order

(1) Article 7 (powers of British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats) of the Order is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for “to (4)” there is substituted “to (8)”.

(3) After paragraph (4) there is inserted—

(5) Where it appears to a British sea fisheries officer that the satellite tracking device on a relevant British fishing boat or a Scottish fishing boat failed, at a time when the boat was not in port, to operate in accordance with article 3(5) of this Order, that officer may, subject to paragraph (7), at any time when the boat is in port, serve on the master or the owner a notice under paragraph (6).

(6) The notice referred to in paragraph (5) is a notice which—

(a) requires the boat to be detained in port from the time of service of the notice until the expiry of the specified monitoring period; and

(b) requires that throughout the specified monitoring period the device shall be set (as nearly as its condition allows) so as to transmit the required information to the Fisheries Monitoring Centre of the United Kingdom—

(i) in the case of a device designed to be capable of being polled, at least every two hours; and

(ii) in the case of a device not so designed, at least every hour.

(7) A notice under paragraph (6) shall not be served later than 30 days after the day on which it appears to the British sea fisheries officer that the satellite tracking device last failed to operate in accordance with article 3(5) of this Order.

(8) In this article—

(a) in paragraphs (5) and (7) the reference to article 3(5) of this Order includes a provision to the same effect made by an order which applies to waters beyond the territorial sea adjacent to Wales;

(b) in paragraph (6) “the specified monitoring period” means a period of 24 hours which is specified in the notice (which period shall not begin later than 9.00 a.m. on the weekday next following the day on which the notice is served).