{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lobsters-control-of-importation-order-1981/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lobsters-control-of-importation-order-1981/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Lobsters (Control of Importation) Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lobsters-control-of-importation-order-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This order, which applies to Great Britain,—\n(a) designates an area consisting of all land which is within one mile of any of the areas of tidal or inland water designated by The Lobsters (Control of Deposit) Order 1981, and\n(b) prohibits the importation into any .area of land so designated of lobsters the deposit of which in the area of water to which the area of land is adjacent would be a contravention of The Lobsters (Control of Deposit) Order 1981.\nThe importation of lobsters into an area of land designated by this order is not prohibited by this order if the deposit of those lobsters in the area of water to which the area of land is adjacent is authorised by a licence under article 7 of The Lobsters (Control of Deposit) Order 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/995/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:36:22.053735+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."
}