{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1981/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1981/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/29",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-1981",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Fishery protection in waters adjacent to Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "The Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland may, with the approval of the Department of Finance for Northern Ireland, incur expenditure in employing officers and vessels and generally taking such measures as appear to it necessary to protect British fisheries in the Northern Ireland zone within the meaning of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (28.3.2002) by 2002/790, art. 6(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/29/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:08.758735+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."
}