S.I. No. 46/2004 - Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003 (Section 23) Order 2004

1. This Order may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003 (Section 23) Order 2004.

2. It is hereby declared that the states specified in the Schedule to this Order are party states for the purposes of Part 4 of the

Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003

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SCHEDULE

The State

Mauritius

Australia

Federated States of Micronesia

Austria

Monaco

Bahamas

Namibia

Barbados

Nauru

Belgium

Netherlands

Brazil

New Zealand

Canada

Norway

Cook Islands

Papua New Guinea

Costa Rica

Portugal

Cyprus

Russian Federation

Denmark

Saint Lucia

European Community

Samoa

Fiji

Senegal

Finland

Seychelles

France

Soloman Icelands

Germany

South Africa

Greece

Spain

Iceland

Sri Lanka

India

Sweden

Islamic Republic of Iran

Tonga

Italy

Ukraine

Luxembourg

United Kingdom of Great Britain

Maldives

and Northern Ireland

Malta

United States of America

Marshall Islands

Uruguay

GIVEN under my Official Seal at Dublin this 30th day of January, 2004.

BRIAN COWEN, T.D.,

Minister for Foreign Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

Section 23

of the

Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003

enables the Minister for Foreign Affairs to declare by order which states are party states to the Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, done at New York on the 4th of August 1995. This Order specifies in the Schedule which States are party states.

I, BRIAN COWEN, T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by

section 23

of the

Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2003

(No. 21 of 2003), hereby order as follows