{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-185A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-185A.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/17",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/185A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "185A",
  "heading": "Preservation of amenity.",
  "text": "In the exercise of their functions under this Act the Ministry . . . shall have regard to the following matters, that is to say, the desirability of—\n(a) preserving natural beauty or amenity,\n(b) conserving flora, fauna and geological or physiographical features of special interest, and\n(c) protecting buildings and other objects of architectural or historic interest,\nin so far as those matters are capable of being affected by that exercise.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1968 c.31 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 185A repealed (1.6.2009) by Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 3), ss. 1(3)(b), 6, 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(38), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2009/172, art. 2(b)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/185A",
    "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."
}