{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/89",
  "legislation_title": "Conservation of Scallops Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations:—\n“the Act” means the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966;\n“belly rings” means rings which make up the floor of a scallop dredge;\n“dredge bar” or “tooth bar” means a horizontal bar with teeth on the bottom of a scallop dredge;\n“French dredge” means a scallop dredge of the type known as a “French dredge” incorporating paravanes, diving plates, pressure plates, water deflecting plates or any similar device, and having rigid fixed teeth;\n“scallop” means fish of the species Pecten maximus;\n“scallop dredge” includes any appliance with a rigid framed mouth which is towed through the water and is manufactured, adapted, used or intended for use for the purpose of fishing for scallops or other shell fish;\n“width” in relation to any scallop dredge means the distance across the mouth of a dredge when measured horizontally.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 31.3.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/46",
      "affecting_title": "Conservation of Scallops (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/89",
      "affecting_title": "Conservation of Scallops Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/89/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:30:26.347155+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."
}