{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockles-and-mussels-specified-area-wales-order-2011/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockles-and-mussels-specified-area-wales-order-2011/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/1988",
  "legislation_title": "The Cockles and Mussels (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cockles-and-mussels-specified-area-wales-order-2011",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Fishing restrictions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person may fish for or take mussels within the specified area unless they do so in accordance with the conditions of a permit.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any person who—\n(a) takes by hand not more than ... five kilograms in live weight of mussels in any one day for personal consumption;\n(b) takes mussels whilst onboard a fishing boat; or\n(c) takes mussels pursuant to an Order made under section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967.\n(3) Any person fishing for or taking mussels within the specified area must produce a copy of that person’s permit if requested to do so by a person authorised by the Welsh Ministers.\n(4) Any person who has been requested to produce a permit pursuant to paragraph (3) must not fish for or take mussels within the specified area until that permit has been produced.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 3(1) substituted (10.7.2024) by The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/767), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(2)(a) omitted (10.7.2024) by virtue of The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/767), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 3 substituted (10.7.2024) by The Cockle Fishing Management and Permitting (Specified Area) (Wales) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/767), art. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 17(3)(a) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.9.2011, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 83."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/1988/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:50.573774+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."
}