Fishing (Prohibition of Importation of Ormers) Order, 1999 (G.S.I. No. 33 of 1999)

GREFFE rWURT GUERNSEY STATUTORY INSTRUMENT I 2 9 SEP 1999 I I GUERNSEY 1999-No. 33 The Fishina (Prohibition Of Importation Of Ormers) Order, 1999 Made ........................ 2dh September, 1999 ............ Laid before the States ,1999 ............ Coming into Operation on 2dh ~e~ tember , 1999 THE STATES SEA FISHERIES COMMITTEE, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 15(1) of the Fishing Ordinance, 1997(a), hereby orders: Prohibition on importation of ormers 1. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall import (a) any ormers of the species Haliotis tuberculata (commonly known as ormers), whether dead or alive; or (b) any eggs or larvae of such ormers. (2) This sections does not apply to preserved ormers. Inter~retation. 2. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise provides, "preserved ormers" shall have the same meaning as in the Fishing Ordinance, 1997. (2) The Interpretation (Guernsey) Law, 1948(b) applies to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an enactment. Citation. 3. This Order may be cited as the Fishing (Prohibition of Importation of Ormers) Order, 1999. (a) Ordinance No. XXV of 1997. (b) Ordres en Conseil Vol. XIII, p. 355. Commencement 4. This Order shall come into force on the 2 ~ ' ~ September 1999. Dated this R J LE MOIGNAN President of the States Sea Fisheries Committee for and on behalf of the Committee Explanatory Note: (This note is not part of the Order) This Order has been brought in an effort to prevent the spread of disease in ormers, spreading widely throughout the adjacent French Coast and Jersey