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the exclusive fishery limits, that is to say, the said fishery limits to a distance of six miles from those baselines; and
the remainder, in this section referred to as " the outer belt".
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if the boat is not registered in a country for the time being designated under this Act, section 7 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1883 shall apply as it applies with respect to the exclusive fishery limits ;
if the boat is registered in a country for the time being so designated, the boat shall not fish or attempt to fish except in an area and for any description of sea fish so designated in relation to that country;
For the purpose of giving effect to any Convention, agreement or arrangement providing for sea-fishing by foreign fishing boats the Ministers may by order designate any country outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and the area in which and descriptions of sea fish for which fishing boats registered in that country may fish in the outer belt, and any such order shall be made by statutory instrument and may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order so made.
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Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, the fishery limits of the British Islands shall not include any part of the sea which is beyond the median line between the coasts of England or the Channel Islands and France, that is to say a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the low water lines of those coasts or any other line agreed between the government of the United Kingdom and the government of France.
until the end of the year 1965; and
so far as concerns any area where the base line of the territorial sea is a straight line other than a bay-closing line or is a straight line exceeding ten miles, until the end of the year 1966;
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In section 4(a), for the words " up to the limit of territorial waters " there shall be substituted the words " within the fishery limits of the British Islands ".
In paragraph (a) of section 1(1) for the words from " within " to " fishing" there shall be substituted the words " within the national or territorial waters of the United Kingdom ".
In section 12(6)(b), for the words from " within " to " adjacent to the United Kingdom" there shall be substituted the words " in any waters adjacent to the United Kingdom and within the fishery limits of the British Islands ".
" Sea Fisheries Acts " means any enactments for the time being in force relating to sea-fishing, including any enactment relating to fishing for shellfish, salmon or migratory trout and any such enactment passed by the Parliament of Northern Ireland; and
In section 3(4), for the words “within three miles of low-water on any part of the coast of Ireland” there shall be substituted the words “within such part of the fishery limits of the British Islands as is mentioned in section 4(2) of the Fishery Limits Act 1964”.
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The enactments mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being amendments consequential on the extension of the fishery limits of the British Islands.
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This Act extends to Northern Ireland
References in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to the portion of Ireland within the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall be construed as including, in relation to any matter concerning or connected with fishing, so much of the fishery limits of the British Islands as is adjacent to Northern Ireland but is not nearer to any point on the coasts of Scotland than to any point on the coasts of Northern Ireland.
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For the purposes of section 6 of that Act (conflict of laws) so much of this Act as relates to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws shall be deemed to be contained in an Act passed before the day appointed for the purposes of that section.
This Act may be cited as the Fishery Limits Act 1964.
This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
Section 3.
In subsection (1) of section 10 and of section 11, there shall be substituted—
in paragraph (a) for the words from " limits " to " Great Britain " the words " fishery limits of the British Islands " and
in paragraph (b) for the words from " within " to the end of the paragraph, the words " in any waters adjacent to Great Britain and within those limits ".
In section 2, in the definition of “the coasts of Scotland” for the words “within the distance of three miles from the mainland or adjacent islands” there shall be substituted the words “surrounding Scotland which are within the fishery limits of the British Islands”.
In section 4(a), for the words “up to the limit of territorial waters” there shall be substituted the words “in any waters adjacent to the United Kngdom which are within the fishery limits of the British Islands”.
In section 9(a) for the words from " territorial waters " to " Wales " there shall be substituted the words " waters adjoining the coast of England and Wales and within the fishery limits of the British Islands ".
In section 17(1) for the definition “coastal waters” there should be substituted the following:“coastal waters” means—
In section 17(1) for the definition of " coastal waters " there shall be substituted the following:
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