
1 
This Order may be cited as the Fishing Boats (European Economic Community) Designation Order 1972 and shall come into operation on 1st January
1973.
2 

(1) In this Order
 “the Act” means the Fishery Limits Act 1964;
 “the baselines” means the baselines from which the territorial sea adjacent
to the United Kingdom is measured as prescribed by the Territorial Waters
Order in Council 1964;
 “the Community States” means the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of
Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, the
Republic of Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of the Netherlands;
 
“demersal fish” means all sea fish other than salmon, migratory trout,
mackerel, clupeoid fish, sand eels, Norway pout, smelts, eels, great weevers,
crustaceans and molluscs (other than squids);
 “the exclusive fishery limits” means the United Kingdom fishery limits
to a distance of 6 miles from the baselines;
 “fishing boat” means a vessel of whatever size and in whatever way propelled which is for the time being employed in sea fishing;
 “the Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
and the Secretaries of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively;
 “the outer belt” means the United Kingdom fishery limits other than the
exclusive fishery limits;
 “the outer belt appurtenant to” in relation to a coast or island means
that part of the outer belt which is within 12 miles of the baseline along
such coast or round such island;
 
“the reserved waters” means the areas comprising the waters within those
parts of the outer belt described in Schedule 1 to this Order;
 
“United Kingdom fishery limits” means those parts of the fishery limits
of the British Islands which are adjacent to the United Kingdom.
(2) In this Order all directions shall be related to the true compass.
(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this
Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament and as if the
Order and the Orders hereby revoked were Acts of Parliament.
3 
The Orders set out in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked to the
extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
4 
For the purpose of giving effect to the Treaty relating to the accession of
the United Kingdom to the European Economic Community (insofar as sea
fishing by fishing boats is provided for under that Treaty), and for the purposes of section 1(3) of the Act (which empowers the Ministers by order to
designate any country outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and
the Isle of Man, and the area in which and descriptions of sea fish for which
fishing boats registered in that country may fish in the outer belt) the
Ministers:—
(a) as respects the area consisting of so much of the outer belt as does
not include the reserved waters hereby designate (i) each of the Community States, (ii) that area and (iii) sea fish of all descriptions;

(b) as respects the reserved waters, hereby designate (i) each of the Community States specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to this Order, (ii) such
parts of reserved waters as are in relation to each such State specified
in column 2 of that Schedule and (iii) such descriptions of sea fish as
are in relation to such States and such parts, specified in column 3
of that Schedule.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food is hereunto affixed on 2]st December 1972.
(L.S)Joseph Godber,

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Gordon Campbell,
Secretary of State for Scotland.
20th December 1972.W. S. I. Whitelaw,
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

21st December 1972.
SCHEDULE 1
(ARTICLE 2)
1 
The outer belt appurtenant to the Shetland and Orkney Islands (including Fair
Isle, Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry).
2 
The outer belt appurtenant to the north and east coasts of Scotland (insofar as not
comprised in the outer belt described in paragraph 1 hereof) between:—
(a) a line drawn north-east from Cape Wrath lighthouse and

(b) a line drawn east from the Berwick Breakwater Head lighthouse.
3 
The outer belt appurtenant to the north-east coast of England between:—
(a) a line drawn east from Coquet Island lighthouse and
(b)  the southernmost limit of the outer belt appurtenant to the coast of
Flamborough Head.
4 
The outer belt appurtenant to the south-west coasts of England between:—

(a) a line drawn south from Cobb Harbour Beacon at Lyme Regis and

(b) a line drawn north-west from Hartland Point lighthouse.
5 
The outer belt appurtenent to Lundy Island (insofar as not comprised in the outer
belt described in paragraph 4 hereof).
6 
The outer belt appurtenant to the coast of Northern Ireland between:—

(a) a line drawn north-east from Mew Island lighthouse and


(b) a line drawn south-east from Haulbowline Rocks lighthouse.
SCHEDULE 2
(ARTICLE 3)


Number Title of Order Extent of Revocation
1. The Fishing Boats (Federal Republic of Germany) Designation Order 1964 The whole Order.
2. 
The Fishing Boats (France) Designation 
Order 1965 
In Article 4(2), sub-paragraph (a);

Schedule 1; Schedule 2
other than the entries
relating to areas 18 and
19.

3. The Fishing Boats (Republic of Ireland) Designation Order 1965 
In Article 4(2), sub-paragraph (a);

In Article 4(3), the words
from “Within the area
to ‘‘all
defined descriptions”;

The Schedule other than
the entries relating to
areas 6 and 7.

4.  The Fishing Boats (Belgium) Designation Order 1965 The Schedule other than
the entry relating to
area 7.
5. The Fishing Boats (Belgium) Designation 
(Amendment) Order 1965 The whole Order.
6. The Fishing Boats (Netherlands) Designation (No. 2) Order 1966 The whole Order.
7. The Fishing Boats (Belgium) Designation
(Amendment) Order 1967 The whole Order.
8. The Fishing Boats (France) Designation (Amendment) Order 1967 The whole Order.

SCHEDULE 3
(ARTICLE 4)


State  Part of Outer Belt  Description of Fish
1. Kingdom of Belgium  
SCOTLAND
Waters in the outer belt between:—

(a)  a line drawn north-east from
Cape Wrath lighthouse and
(b)  a line drawn north from
Strathy Point lighthouse Demersal fish

and between:—


(a) a line drawn east from Noss
Head lighthouse and

(b) a line drawn due north from
Troup Head  Demersal fish

ENGLAND
Waters in the outer belt between:—


(a) a line drawn south-east from
Straight Point lighthouse and 
(b) the northernmost limit of the
outer belt appurtenant to
Lundy Island Demersal fish

2. Federal Republic of Germany 
SCOTLAND
Waters in the outer belt between:—




(a) a line drawn south-east from
Sumburgh Head lighthouse
(Shetland)
(b) a line drawn north-east from
Skroo lighthouse (Fair Isle)
and
(c) a line drawn south-west from
Skadan lighthouse (Fair Isle) Herring

ENGLAND
Waters in the outer belt between:—



(a) a line drawn east from
Coquet Island lighthouse and 
(b) a line drawn east from
Whitby High lighthouse Herring

3. French Republic 
ENGLAND
Waters in the outer belt between:—



(a) a line drawn due south from
the Cobb Harbour Beacon at
Lyme Regis and
(b) a line drawn south from the
Eddystone lighthouse  Demersal fish

and between:—


(a) a line drawn south from the 
Eddystone lighthouse and 
(b) a line drawn south-west from 
the Longships lighthouse 
Lobsters
crawfish 
escallops
demersal fish


and between:—


(a) a line drawn south-west from the Longships lighthouse and 
(b) a line drawn north-west from Hartland Point lighthouse 
Lobsters
crawfish 
demersal fish

Waters in such part of the outer
belt appurtenant to Lundy Island
as lies to the north and east of a line drawn north-west from Hartland Point lighthouse Demersal fish


NORTHERN IRELAND
Waters in that part of the outer belt
which is adjacent to Northern Ireland between:—

(a) a line drawn north-east from
Mew Island lighthouse and
(b) a line drawn south-east from
Haulbowline Rocks lighthouse Demersal fish
4.  Republic of Ireland  
NORTHERN IRELAND

Waters in that part of the outer belt
which is adjacent to Northern Ireland between:—

(a) a line drawn north-east from
Mew Island lighthouse and 
(b) a line drawn south-east from
Haulbowline Rocks lighthouse All descriptions
5. Kingdom of the Netherlands 
SCOTLAND

Waters in the outer belt between:—


(a) a line drawn south-east from
Sumburgh lighthouse (Shetland) 
(b) a line drawn north-east from
Skroo lighthouse (Fair Isle) 
(c) a line drawn south-west from
Skadan lighthouse (Fair Isle)  Herring

ENGLAND

Waters in the outer belt between:—


(a) a line drawn east from
Coquet Island lighthouse and
(b)  a line drawn east from Flamborough Head lighthouse Herring
