The Weekly Law Reports
[2011] 1 WLR 1546
Supreme Court
*Bloomsbury International Ltd and others v Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Sea Fish Industry Authority intervening)
[2011] UKSC 25
[On appeal from Bloomsbury International Ltd and others v Sea Fish Industry Authority and another]
2011 March 23,
24;
June 15
June 15
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Mance JJSC, Lord Collins of Mapesbury
Fishery— Sea fishing— Levy— Statute empowering levy on sea fish and sea fish products “landed in the United Kingdom”— Subordinate legislation imposing levy on sea fish and sea fish products imported from outside United Kingdom— Whether ultra vires— Whether levy on imported sea fish products charge having equivalent effect to customs duty—
Fisheries Act 1981 (c 29) (as amended by Sea Fish Industry Authority (Levy Powers) Order (SI 1990/1641), art 2), ss 2(1), 4(3), 14(2)
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Sea Fish Industry Authority (Levy) Regulations 1995 Confirmatory Order 1996 (SI 1996/160), Sch, para 4
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FEU Treaty
, arts 28FEU, 30FEU, 110FEU