S.I. No. 367/2007 - Bass (Restriction on Sale) Regulations 2007

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Bass (Restriction on Sale) Regulations 2007.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 July 2007.

3. In these Regulations

“Bass” means Dicentrarchus labrax

4. No person shall sell or offer for sale bass other than bass that has been imported into the State.

GIVEN under my Offical Seal,

28 June 2007

EAMON RYAN

Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

The effect of these Regulations is to prohibit the sale or offer for sale of bass (other than bass which has been imported into the State) from 1 July 2007.

S.I. No. 367 of 2007

BASS (RESTRICTION ON SALE) REGULATIONS 2007

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

3

rd July

, 2007.

I, EAMON RYAN, Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 15

of the

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006

(No. 8 of 2006) hereby make the following regulations—