{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portland-harbour-fishery-variation-order-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portland-harbour-fishery-variation-order-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3049",
  "legislation_title": "The Portland Harbour Fishery (Variation) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portland-harbour-fishery-variation-order-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEA FISHERIES\nSHELLFISH\nMade 11th November 1999\nLaid before Parliament 19th November 1999\nComing into force 9th January 2000\nWhereas an application for an Order under section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 to vary the Portland Harbour Fishery Order 1989 was made to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by Portland Oystermen Limited (“the Company”);\nAnd whereas the said Minister prepared a draft Order and served a copy of it on the Company in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the said Act;\nAnd whereas the Company caused printed copies of the draft Order to be published and circulated, and gave notice of the application, in accordance with paragraph 2 of the said Schedule;\nAnd whereas the only objections that were made to the said Minister under paragraph 3 of the said Schedule were subsequently withdrawn;\nNow, therefore, the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the consent of the Crown Estate Commissioners, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 83; section 1 was amended by section 15(2) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), and paragraph 42(2) of Schedule 2 to the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No. 2) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1820) and is to be read with section 15(3) to (5) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 and S.I. 1987/218; Schedule 1 was amended by section 15(7) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968; section 22(1) contains a definition of “the appropriate Minister”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2428."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3049/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:39.882106+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."
}