{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/430",
  "legislation_title": "Conservation of Scallops Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-scallops-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) 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...\n“defined area” means Northern Ireland inshore waters and that part of the Northern Ireland zone within twelve nautical miles measured from baselines in Northern Ireland;\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“scallops” means shellfish 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;\n“size” in relation to any scallop means the size calculated by measuring the maximum length of the shell;\n“Strangford Lough” shall be construed in accordance with the Inshore Fishing (Prohibition of Fishing and Fishing Methods) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993;\n“tow bar” means any device or appliance which is capable of being used for the purpose of fixing or attaching a scallop dredge to a vessel for the purpose of enabling such a dredge to be towed by the vessel;\n“width” in relation to any scallop dredge means the distance across the mouth of a dredge when measured horizontally.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 34(2) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 17.11.2008, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.21"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R.1993 No 155"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/430/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:19.899315+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."
}