{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mackerel-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mackerel-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2963",
  "legislation_title": "The Mackerel (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mackerel-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prohibits fishing for mackerel in sea areas ICES Statistical Sub-Areas VI, VII, XII and XIV and ICES Statistical Divisions Vb and VIIIa, b, d and e by any British fishing boat which does not exceed 10 metres in length or which is used wholly for the purposes of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure (article 2).\nThe prohibitions of fishing set out above shall apply—\n(a) within any part of a sea area specified in the Schedule to the Order if the boat is registered in the United Kingdom, or\n(b) within any part of such a sea area which lies within British fishery limits if the boat is registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or, not being registered, is British-owned,\nduring the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1998 (article 2).\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 above-mentioned sea areas, fish caught in contravention of this Order 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 of the Order (article 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2963/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:46.408259+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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