{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haddock-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haddock-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2767",
  "legislation_title": "The Haddock (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/haddock-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition and exception",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, fishing for haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)–\n(a) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within any part of a sea area; or\n(b) by any other British fishing boat within any part of a sea area which lies within British fishery limits,\nis prohibited during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of this Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1992.\n(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1)(a) above shall not apply to fishing within that part of the sea area ICES IIa (Norwegian Sea) which lies outside British fishery limits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2767/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:04.302511+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."
}