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1983 No. 159

SEA FISHERIES

SHELLFISH

The Molluscan Shellfish (Control of Deposit) (Variation) Order 1983

Made

14th February 1983

Coming into Operation

15th February 1983

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 and now vested in them(1), and of all other powers vested in them in that behalf, hereby make the following order:-

Title and commencement

1. This order may be cited as the Molluscan Shellfish (Control of Deposit) (Variation) Order 1983 and shall come into operation on 15th February 1983.

Variation of principal order

2. The Molluscan Shellfish (Control of Deposit) Order 1974 is hereby varied by substituting for the Schedule thereto the Schedule contained in the Schedule to this order.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 11th February 1983.

L.S.

Peter Walker

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

14th February 1983

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Article 4(1)

"SCHEDULEDESIGNATED WATERS

In this Schedule a group of two letters and eight figures identifying or associated with any point represents the map co-ordinates of that point estimated to the nearest ten metres on the grid of the national reference system used by the Ordnance Survey on its maps and plans.

The areas of water comprising tidal waters (whether forming part of the sea or not) within the seaward limits of the territorial waters adjacent to England and Wales which lie between or within, as the case may be, the limits specified below:-

Area 1	A line drawn due east from NT 97945753 being the point where the border with Scotland intersects the coastline and a line drawn due east from Dunstanburgh Castle at NU 25752195.
Area 2	A line drawn due east from Dunstanburgh Castle at NU 25752195 and a line drawn due east from the Heugh Lighthouse, Hartlepool at NZ 53213379.
Area 3	A line drawn due east from the Heugh Lighthouse, Hartlepool at NZ 53213379 and a line drawn due east from the Flamborough Lighthouse at TA 25437065.
Area 4	A line drawn due east from the Flamborough Lighthouse at TA 25437065 and a line drawn due east from Donna Nook at TF 43029971.
Area 5	A line drawn due east from Donna Nook at TF 43029971 and a line drawn due north from the westernmost tip of Scolt Head at TF 79194627.
Area 6	A line drawn due north from the westernmost tip of Scolt Head at TF 79194627 and a line drawn due east from the end of the northern pier at the entrance to Yarmouth Harbour at TG 53500381.
Area 7	A line drawn due east from the end of the northern pier at the entrance to Yarmouth Harbour at TG 53500381 and a line drawn due east from the landward end of the jetty at Landguard Point, Felixstowe at TM 28303117.
Area 8a	A line drawn due east from the landward end of the jetty at Landguard Point, Felixstowe at TM 28303117 and a line drawn south east from the landward end of Clacton Pier at TM 17681450.
Area 8b	A line drawn south-east from the landward end of Clacton Pier at TM 17681450 and a line drawn due east from the Grange Outfall at TM 02760189.
Area 8c	A line drawn due east from the Grange Outfall at TM 02760189 and a line drawn due east from the landward end of Barge Pier, Shoeburyness at TQ 93108393.
Area 9	A line drawn due east from the landward end of Barge Pier, Shoeburyness at TQ 93108393 and a line drawn due east from the North Foreland Lighthouse at TR 39866962, including that part of the River Swale east of Kingsferry Bridge, Queenborough-in-Sheppey, but excluding Area 10.
Area 10	The River Medway, Kent, including its creeks and tributaries and that part of the River Swale to the west side of Kingsferry Bridge, Queen-borough-in-Sheppey, being the area south of a line drawn from the northern end of the sea wall on the Isle of Grain at TQ 89017700 to Barton's Point on the Isle of Sheppey at TQ 93867494.
Area 11	A line drawn due east from the North Foreland lighthouse at TR 39866962 and a line drawn due south from the southernmost tip of Selsey Bill at SZ 85709212.
Area 12a	A line drawn due south from the southernmost tip of Selsey Bill at SZ 85709212 and a line drawn due north and south from the Needles Lighthouse at SZ 28968481.
Area 12b	A line drawn due north and south from the Needles Lighthouse at SZ 28968481 and a line drawn due south from the Lighthouse on the southern end of the Bill of Portland at SY 67746836.
Area 13	A line due south from the Lighthouse on the southern end of the Bill of Portland at SY 67746836 and a line drawn due south from the Lighthouse at Start Point at SX 82943712.
Area 14a	A line drawn due south from the Lighthouse at Start Point at SX 82943712 and a line drawn due south from the coast at the centre point of Pencarrow Head at SX 15055035.
Area 14b	A line drawn due south from the coast at the centre point of Pencarrow Head at SX 15055035 and a line drawn due south from the southernmost tip of Dodman Point at SX 00133919.
Area 14c	A line drawn due south from the southernmost tip of Dodman Point at SX 00133919 and a line drawn due south from the Lizard Lighthouse at SW 70401156.
Area 15	A line drawn due south from the Lizard Lighthouse at SW 70401156 and a line drawn due west from the Bull Point Lighthouse at SS 46264678.
Area 16	A line drawn due west from the Bull Point Lighthouse at SS 46264678 and a line drawn south-west from Worms Head at SS 38338771 but excluding Area 17.
Area 17	The Severn Estuary eastwards of a line drawn from Sand Point at ST 31856592 to Lavernock Point at ST 18746812.
Area 18	A line drawn south-west from Worms Head at SS 38338771 and a line drawn due west from New Quay Head at SN 38756048.
Area 19	A line drawn due west from New Quay Head at SN 38756048 to a line drawn due west from Braich y Pwll at SH 13552583.
Area 20	A line drawn due west from Braich y Pwll at SH 13552583 and a line drawn due north from the Lighthouse at Great Ormes Head at SH 75678444.
Area 21	A line drawn due north from the Lighthouse at Great Ormes Head at SH 75678444 and a line drawn due west from Formby Point at SD 26710677.
Area 22	A line drawn due west from Formby Point at SD 26710677 and a line drawn due west from the landward end of the South Pier, Blackpool at SD 30483374.
Area 23	A line drawn due west from the landward end of the South Pier, Blackpool at SD 30483374 and a line drawn due west from Sunderland Point at SD 42335523.
Area 24	A line drawn north to south through the eastern edge of Chapel Island at SD 32167579 and a line drawn due west from Sunderland Point at SD 42335523.
Area 25	The area lying to the west of a line drawn north to south through the eastern edge of Chapel Island at SD 32167579 and to the north of a line drawn due west from Sunderland Point at SD 42335523 and to the south of a line drawn due west from Haverigg Point at SD 14137787.
Area 26	A line drawn due west from Haverigg Point at SD 14137787 and a line defined as follows -� the centre line of the River Sark starting at its mouth to its junction with the low water channel of the River Esk, the centre line of the low water channel of the River Esk to its junction with the low water channel of the River Eden, the centre line of the low water channel of the River Eden to its junction with the 13 Easting gridline (Ordnance Survey Maps), the equidistant line of the estuary between the high water marks on the coasts of England and Scotland to the mid point of a line joining Little Ross Lighthouse at NX 65964320 to St. Bees Lighthouse at NX 94141438, thence along a line bearing of 224° (True).
Area 27	The area of water comprising tidal waters (whether forming part of the sea or not) within the seaward limits of the territorial waters adjacent to the Isles of Scilly."

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This order varies the Molluscan Shellfish (Control of Deposit) Order 1974 by substituting a new Schedule setting out areas of tidal water within the seaward limits of the territorial waters adjacent to England and Wales designated for the purposes of the order.

In the new Schedule:-

(a)area 8 (Landguard Point, Felixstowe to Barge Pier, Shoeburyness) is subdivided into three areas; area 8a (Landguard Point, Felixstowe to Clacton Pier), area 8b (Clacton Pier to Grange Outfall) and area 8c (Grange Outfall to Barge Pier, Shoeburyness);

(b)area 12 (Selsey Bill to the Bill of Portland) is subdivided into two areas: area 12a (Selsey Bill to the Needles Lighthouse) and area 12b (the Needles Lighthouse to the Bill of Portland);

(c)area 14 (Start Point to the Lizard Lighthouse) is subdivided into three areas: area 14a (Start Point to Pencarrow Head), area 14b (Pencarrow Head to Dodman Point) and area 14c (Dodman Point to the Lizard Lighthouse).

The Molluscan Shellfish (Control of Deposit) Order 1974 prohibits the deposit in any designated area of molluscan shellfish taken from a shellfish bed outside that area except in accordance with a licence granted by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Wales, as the case may be.

The 1974 Order also designates certain land adjacent to the designated waters; and by virtue of section 12(3) of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 the prohibition on the deposit of molluscan shellfish in the designated areas of water applies also to the deposit of molluscan shellfish on that land.

(1)

By the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272).