225 Byelaws: emergency procedures
Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (2009 c 23) | Legislation

225  Byelaws: emergency procedures

(1)     In the Water Resources Act 1991 (c 57), in section 210 (byelaw-making powers of the Agency) at the end insert—

“(3)     Schedule 27 to this Act (emergency fisheries byelaws) shall have effect.”

(2)     In that Act, after Schedule 26 insert—

“SCHEDULE 27
Emergency Fisheries Byelaws

Section 210(3)

Emergency fisheries byelaws

1

(1)     In this Schedule, “emergency fisheries byelaw” means a byelaw made under paragraph 6 of Schedule 25 to this Act (fisheries) in the circumstances in sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2)     The circumstances are that—

(a)     the Agency considers that, because of any event or likely event, harm is occurring or is likely to occur to—

(i)     any fish to which paragraph 6 of Schedule 25 to this Act applies or to the spawn, gametes or food of any such fish, or

(ii)     the marine or coastal, or aquatic or waterside, environment,

(b)     the Agency considers that the byelaw would prevent or limit that harm, or would be reasonably likely to do so,

(c)     the Agency considers that for that purpose there is a need for the byelaw to come into force as a matter of urgency, and

(d)     the event

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