{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-england-order-1999/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3052",
  "legislation_title": "The Conservation of Seals (England) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/conservation-of-seals-england-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of article 2, the territorial limits of this Order are—\n(a) the counties of Durham, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hartlepool, Kent, Kingston-upon-Hull, Lincolnshire, the Medway Towns, Middlesbrough, Norfolk, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Redcar and Cleveland, Southend-on-Sea, Stockton-on-Tees, Suffolk, Thurrock, Tyne and Wear and the administrative area of Greater London; and\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 specified in paragraph (a) 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/1999/3052/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:37.609454+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."
}