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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sea-fisheries-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110392442",
  "legislation_title": "Sea Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sea-fisheries-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Northern Ireland Act 1998;\n“the Northern Ireland zone” means the sea within British fishery limits which is adjacent to Northern Ireland;\n“the transferor” means, in relation to anything transferred by this Order, the Minister or Ministers from whom it is transferred.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to a Northern Ireland fishing boat is to a vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Northern Ireland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging.\n(3) Any reference in this Order to a function of a Minister of the Crown under any enactment includes a reference to the functions of that Minister under any scheme, regulations, Order in Council, order, bye-laws or similar instrument having effect under or in relation to that enactment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}