Third Country Fishing (Enforcement) Order 1999 (S.I. No. 425 of 1999).

This Order provides for the enforcement of certain enforceable Community restrictions and other obligations relating to sea fishing set out in Council Regulation (EC) No. 50/and Council Regulation (EC) No. 52/1999. The Community Regulations respectively authorize fishing by vessels of Norway and the Faeroe Islands for specified descriptions of fish in certain specified areas within member States' fishery limits in 1999 and contain requirements concerning fishing quotas and authorized zones, methods of fishing, the holding of licences and observance of licence conditions, the keeping of log books, the making of radio reports and similar matters. The Order makes breaches of specified articles of the Community Regulations offences for the purposes of United Kingdom law where they occur within British fishery limits (art. 3 and the Schedule to the Order). Additionally the Order: (a) contains provision concerning the recovery of fines (art. 5); (b) confers powers of enforcement on British sea-fishery officers (arts. 6 to 8), including provision for their protection (art. 9); (c) provides for the punishment of anyone found guilty of obstructing or assaulting an officer (art. 10), and (d) makes provision for the trial of offences (art. 11) and the admissibility of logbooks and other documents (art. 12).