{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Conservation of Scallops (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Conservation of Scallops Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "text": "(1) The Conservation of Scallops Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 shall be amended as provided in paragraphs (2) to (5).\n(2) In regulation 2 after the definition of “scallop dredge” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““size” in relation to any scallop means the size calculated by measuring the maximum length of the shell;”.\n(3) In regulation 3(2)(e) for the words “minimum mesh size of 100mm” there shall be substituted the words “mesh size of less than 100mm”.\n(4) In regulation 3(5) for the words “scallops with a minimum size of less than 110mm” there shall be substituted “scallops of a size less than 110mm”.\n(5) For regulation 3(6) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(6) A person who, within British fishery limits which are adjacent to Northern Ireland, catches fish by any means other than a scallop dredge shall not take and retain on board his vessel scallops which are more than 1% by weight of the total of all fish on board.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/89"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/46/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:24.032681+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."
}