{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/herring-and-white-fish-specified-manx-waters-licensing-variation-order-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/herring-and-white-fish-specified-manx-waters-licensing-variation-order-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1564",
  "legislation_title": "The Herring and White Fish (Specified Manx Waters) Licensing (Variation) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/herring-and-white-fish-specified-manx-waters-licensing-variation-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order varies the Herring and White Fish (Specified Manx Waters) Licensing Order 1983 as varied (“the 1983 Order”) which prohibits fishing for herring and for descriptions of white fish specified in the Order within the twelve-mile belt around the Isle of Man but outside territorial waters without a licence.\nThe reference to the Isle of Man Board of Agriculture and Fisheries is replaced by a reference to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Isle of Man (article 2(a)).\nArticle 4 of the 1983 Order permits the retention on board a fishing boat of a quantity of one or more of the descriptions of white fish specified therein, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited, when caught as a by catch not exceeding ten per cent. by weight of the total catch of sea fish on board the fishing boat in the course of lawful fishing for another description of sea fish.\nThis Order replaces that article and restricts the scope of the new article 4 to a by catch of cod, plaice and whiting, in consequence of which fish of any other description of white fish specified in the 1983 Order, the fishing for which is for the time being prohibited under article 3 thereof, must in all circumstances be returned to the sea forthwith in accordance with the provisions of section 4 (9A) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (inserted by section 20(4) of the Fisheries Act 1981) (article 2(b)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1564/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:20:43.080560+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."
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