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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cod-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/683",
  "legislation_title": "The Cod (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cod-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prohibits fishing for cod (Gadus morhua)—\n(a) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man within any part of a sea area specified in the Schedule to the Order, or\n(b) by any British fishing boat registered in any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies inside British fishery limits (article 2).\nBy virtue of section 5(6) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (as amended by section 22(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981), where, in the course of any fishing operations conducted in any of the above-mentioned sea areas, cod are taken on board a boat to which this Order applies, those fish shall (subject to section 9 of that Act) be returned to the sea forthwith.\nBritish sea-fishery officers are given enforcement powers in relation to boats to which the Order applies (article 3).\nThe Order ceases to have effect on 1st January 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/683/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:07:59.342970+00:00"
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  "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."
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