{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cod-and-saithe-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cod-and-saithe-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3192",
  "legislation_title": "The Cod and Saithe (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cod-and-saithe-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition of fishing for cod or saithe and exception",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, fishing for cod (Gadus morhua) or saithe (Pollachius virens) —\n(a) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within any part of the sea area ICES IIa (Norwegian Sea), or ICES IV (North Sea); or\n(b) by any other British fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies within British fishery limits,\nis prohibited during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of this Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1994.\n(2) The prohibition —\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) above shall not apply to fishing within that part of the sea area ICES IIa (Norwegian Sea) which lies outside British fishery limits;\n(b) in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to any boat whose length exceeds 10 metres, except in the case of any boat used wholly for the purpose of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3192/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:44:06.326956+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."
}