{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dee-estuary-cockle-fishery-order-2008/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dee-estuary-cockle-fishery-order-2008/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1472",
  "legislation_title": "The Dee Estuary Cockle Fishery Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dee-estuary-cockle-fishery-order-2008",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Right of regulating a fishery and duration of right",
  "text": "(1) The grantee has the right of regulating a fishery for cockles within the fishery for a period of 20 years starting on 1st July 2008.\n(2) This right includes the right, with the consent of the appropriate national authority, to impose restrictions on, and make regulations respecting, the dredging, fishing for or taking of cockles within the limits of the fishery.\n(3) In this article, “the appropriate national authority” means—\n(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State; and\n(b) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1472/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:30:03.994841+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."
}