Section 3 — Joint fisheries statement: procedure

(1) The fisheries policy authorities may at any time prepare and publish a replacement JFS or amendments of a JFS.

(2) Part 1 of Schedule 1 contains provision applying in relation to the preparation and publication by the fisheries policy authorities of a JFS or amendments of a JFS.

(3) A JFS or an amendment of a JFS comes into effect when it is published in accordance with that Part of that Schedule.

(4) The fisheries policy authorities must review a JFS whenever they consider it appropriate to do so and in any event—

(a) before the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the day on which it was published, and

(b) in the case of a JFS that has already been reviewed, before the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the end of the most recent review.

(5) If, in the light of a review, the fisheries policy authorities conclude that changes are required to the JFS they must—

(a) prepare and publish amendments of the JFS, or

(b) prepare and publish a replacement JFS.

(6) For the purposes of this section, a review of a JFS ends—

(a) if the fisheries policy authorities conclude in the light of the review that no changes are required to the JFS, at the time they reach that conclusion;

(b) if the fisheries policy authorities conclude in the light of the review that changes are required to the JFS, at the time the document mentioned in subsection (5) is published.