{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning-no-12-order-1991/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning-no-12-order-1991/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2077",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 12) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-paralytic-shellfish-poisoning-no-12-order-1991",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 12) Order 1991 and shall come into force at 16.00 hours on 13th September 1991.\n(2) In this Order “green crab” means the species known as “carcinus maenas”; “velvet crab” means the species known as “liocarcinus puber”, and “relevant time” means one minute past midnight on 13th September 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2077/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:38:00.370507+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."
}