{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haddock-and-hake-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haddock-and-hake-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3262",
  "legislation_title": "The Haddock and Hake (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haddock-and-hake-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prohibits, subject to an exception, fishing for haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1993—\n(a) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within any part of the sea area ICES VII, ICES VIII, ICES IX, ICES X or CECAF 34.1.1. specified in the Schedule to the Order, or\n(b) by any British fishing boat registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies within British fishery limits (article 2).\nThis Order also prohibits, subject to an exception, fishing for hake (Merluccius merluccius) during the same period—\n(a) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within any part of the sea area ICES Vb, ICES VI, ICES VII, ICES XII or ICES XIV specified in the Schedule to the Order, or\n(b) by any British fishing boat registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or by any British-owned fishing boat within any part of such a sea area which lies within British fishery limits (article 3).\nBy virtue of section 5(6) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (as amended by section 22(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981), where, in the course of any fishing operations conducted in any of the appropriate sea areas mentioned above, haddock or hake are taken on board a boat to which this Order applies, those fish shall (subject to section 9 of that Act) be returned to the sea forthwith.\nBritish sea-fishery officers are given certain enforcement powers for the purpose of the enforcement on the Order (article 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3262/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:08.585106+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."
}