{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-wales-order-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2003/1855",
  "legislation_title": "The Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) This Order is called the Prohibition of Fishing with Multiple Trawls (Wales) Order 2003.\n(2) This Order applies to Wales and comes into force on 1st August 2003.\n(3) In this Order “Wales” has the same meaning as in section 155(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 and “Welsh waters” is to be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.8.2003, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 38. Wales was defined in section 155(1) as including “the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea”. Article 6 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and Schedule 3 to that Order deals with the application of that provision to Severn and Dee Estuaries."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/1855/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:10:39.373106+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."
}