{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/17",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Definitions of mouths of rivers, etc.",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Act, the Ministry may by order define, by reference to a map or otherwise,—\n(a) the mouth of any river at its entrance into any lake or the sea;\n(b) the mouth of any tributary river at its entrance into any other river;\n(c) the boundary between the tidal and freshwater portions of any river;\n(d) the point or points to or from which distances are to be measured under this Act;\n(e) the areas within which it is prohibited under this Act to use or practise certain methods of fishing;\n[(f the boundary between so much of the Northern Ireland zone as is within, and so much thereof as is without, the Londonderry Area or the Newry Area.]\n(2) Where several rivers flow into a common mouth or estuary, an order under this section may declare that the outlets of such rivers form separate mouths.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1968 c.31 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SI 2002/790"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1)(f) inserted (1.6.2008) by Foyle and Carlingford Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/915 (N.I. 9)), arts. 1(3), 34(1), Sch. 2 para. 2(4) (with art. 32); S.R. 2008/232, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:15.701581+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."
}