Commentary on provisions of Act Fisheries objectives, fisheries statements, and fisheries management plans Section 5: Secretary of State fisheries statement: procedure
Subsection (1) to this section provides that the Secretary of State may at any time prepare and publish a replacement SSFS or make amendments to a published SSFS.
	Subsection (2) refers to Part 2 of Schedule 1 which outlines the mechanism for bringing the SSFS into effect. Subsection (3) provides that the SSFS only comes into effect when it has been published in accordance with that Part of that Schedule.
	Subsections (4) to (6) provide that an SSFS must be reviewed whenever it is appropriate, but no later than six years following the publication of the first SSFS or within six years of the publication of any replacement SSFS. A revised SSFS, or any amendments made to a SSFS, must be published following a review. A review ends under this section when the Secretary of State concludes that no changes to the SSFS are required or when a replacement SSFS or amendments are published.
	Subsections (7) and (8) provide that where a review of a JFS concludes that no policies that could otherwise be in an SSFS should be omitted from the JFS, the Secretary of State may revoke an SSFS setting out those policies and, should this happen, publish a statement that the SSFS has been revoked. Subsection (9) confirms that the revocation of the SSFS comes into effect when that statement is published.