{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/767",
  "legislation_title": "The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockle-fishing-management-and-permitting-specified-area-wales-order-2024",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duty to open a cockle bed",
  "text": "The Welsh Ministers must by declaration, open a cockle bed if an assessment carried out under article 5 has concluded that—\n(a) there is a harvestable surplus, and\n(b) opening the cockle bed subject to conditions on fishing for or taking cockles from that bed will not adversely affect the integrity of a relevant protected site.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 10.7.2024, see art. 1(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/767/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:33.004555+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}