Commentary on provisions of Act Fisheries objectives, fisheries statements, and fisheries management plans Section 4: Secretary of State fisheries statement
Subsections (1) and (2) of this section provide that a JFS, or an amendment to a JFS, may omit a relevant Secretary of State policy that could otherwise be included in it.
	Subsections (3) to (5) provide that the Secretary of State may publish a Secretary of State’s Fisheries Statement (SSFS) that sets out policies not included in the JFS under subsections (1) and (2). Subsection (6) ensures that an SSFS must contain a statement that it has been prepared for the purposes of this section, and subsection (7) ensures that if the requirements in subsections (1) and (2) have been met, the SSFS should be published no more than 6 months after a JFS, or an amendment to a JFS, has been published.
	Subsection (8) defines a "relevant Secretary of State policy" for the purposes of this section. This could include a "UK quota function" which is non-devolved, as well as reserved matters.