{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/herring-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1998/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2867",
  "legislation_title": "The Herring (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/herring-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition",
  "text": "Fishing–\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\nfor herring (Clupea harengus) in sea areas ICES Statistical Divisions IVa and b is prohibited during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of this Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1(1) of the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2867/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:20.128519+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."
}