S.I. No. 329/2003 - Sea Fisheries (Conservation and Rational Exploitation of Cod in The North Sea and To The West of Scotland) Regulations 2003 Skip to content Disclaimer Feedback Helpdesk Gaeilge Léim go dtí an t-ábhar Séanadh Aiseolas Deasc chabhrach English Gaeilge English Produced by the Office of the Attorney General Táirgthe ag Oifig an Ard-Aighne Home Legislation Acts of the Oireachtas Statutory Instruments Pre-1922 Legislation Constitution External Resources Bills (Houses of the Oireachtas) Iris Oifigiúil / Official Gazette Revised Acts (LRC) Classified List of Legislation (LRC) Translations (acts.
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(1)hereby make the following Regulations: 1.
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Sea Fisheries (Conservation and Rational Exploitation of Cod in the North Sea and to the West of Scotland) Regulations 2003.
(2)These Regulations come into operation on 23 July 2003. 2.
(1)In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “the Commission Regulation” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2056/2001 of 19 October 2001 and any future Regulation of the Commission made after the making of these Regulations which amends, extends, replaces or consolidates (with or without modification) the Commission Regulation (as defined herein); “cod” means Gadus morhua.
(2)A word or expression that is used in these regulations and is also used in the Commission Regulation has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Commission Regulation.
- The provisions of the Commission Regulation (being measures for the recovery of the stocks of cod) in so far as they relate to the exclusive fishery limits of the State are hereby prescribed and adopted and accordingly any infringement of the Commission Regulation within these limits after the commencement of these Regulations, shall be an infringement of these Regulations.
- In a prosecution for an infringement of the Commission Regulation in respect of which provision is made in the Commission Regulation for an exclusion, qualification, or exception to, the relevant obligation imposed by the Commission Regulation which would be capable of constituting a defence to the charge, it shall be for the person charged to establish any such defence and it shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, that there is no such defence in the particular case.
- Where, in proceedings in which a contravention of these Regulations is alleged, it is proved that— (a) fish were found on board a sea-fishing boat, and (b) at the time when the fish were so found the sea-fishing boat concerned was within any of the regions specified in Article 1 of the Commission Regulation, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that all of the fish so found were taken within such regions.
- The mesh size of nets and the thickness of twines shall be measured for the purposes of these Regulations in accordance with the provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 129/2003
(2)of 24 January 2003 and any future Regulation of the Commission which amends extends, replaces or consolidates (with or without modification) the said Commission Regulation (EC) 129/2003. GIVEN under my Official Seal, 23 July 2003 Dermot Ahern Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.) These Regulations prescribe and adopt Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2056/2001 of 19 October, 2001 (as may be amended or extended or replaced or consolidated, with or without modification)) which establishes certain technical measures for the recovery of the stock of cod in the North Sea and to the west of Scotland, and provides that any infringement of the Commission Regulation is an infringement of these Regulations.
(1)O.J.L277/13 of 20.10.01
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