{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-england-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-england-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2905",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation of Seals (England) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-england-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of article 2 above, the terrritorial limits of this Order are:\n(a) the counties of Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Suffolk, and Tyne and Wear and the non-metropolitan districts of Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston-upon-Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire.\n(b) those territorial waters adjacent to England which are:\n(i) to the south of a line drawn at 055° true from the point on the mainland at 55° 48'.67 North latitude and 02° 02'.0 West longitude; and\n(ii) adjacent to any of the counties or non-metropolitan districts specified in paragraph (a) above and, in the case of East Sussex, not further west than a line drawn true south from Newhaven Breakwater Head Light which is at 50° 46'.5 North latitude and 00° 03'.6 East longitude.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2905/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:01.663863+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."
}