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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-byelaws-northern-ireland-1997/section-59",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/425",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-byelaws-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "section/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A person shall not use for the taking of salmon in the sea any drift net containing more than 45 full meshes measured vertically between the top rope and the bottom rope of the net.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 59 in operation at 1.11.1997, see byelaw 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/425",
      "affecting_title": "Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/425/section/59",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:10.450753+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."
}