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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Fish Health (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 23rd April 2008.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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The Fish Health Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 shall be amended by:
(a) substituting for regulation 9(2A) the following paragraph—“
(2A) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall not relay any live molluscs, eggs or gametes from any part of an area referred to in Schedule 7 in any other place or area (including any other area referred to in Schedule 7) within Northern Ireland unless he has been authorized to do so in writing by the Department.”; and
(b) substituting for Schedule 7 the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 22nd April 2008.
L McKibben
A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

SCHEDULE
Regulation 2
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SCHEDULE 7
Regulation 9

The areas of waters comprising tidal waters (whether forming part of the sea or not) within the seaward limits of the territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland which lie between or within, as the case may be, the following limits, that is to say—
(a) in Lough Foyle - that part of Lough Foyle bounded by the high water mark and enclosed by an imaginary straight line drawn between the high water mark of Greencastle Fort in the County of Donegal to the high water mark at Martello Tower at Magilligan Point in the County of Londonderry; and
(b) in Strangford Lough - that part of Strangford Lough to the northwest of an imaginary straight line drawn from Killard Point to Ballyquintan Point in the County of Down.
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