{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-wales-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-fishing-with-multiple-trawls-wales-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order —\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;\n“the Council Regulation (“Rheoliad y Cyngor”) means Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the conservation of fisheries resources and the protection of marine ecosystems through technical measures;\n“beam trawler” (“treill-long drawst”) means a fishing boat which, in so far as it carries or uses nets, carries or uses only nets which are designed to be towed along the sea-bed and which have their mouth extended by a beam, bar or other rigid device;\n“equivalent Order” (“Gorchymyn cyfatebol”) means an Order applying to England, Northern Ireland or Scotland and made under section 5 of the Act, pursuant to Article 46 of the Council Regulation, which prohibits fishing by any trawl other than a single trawl;\n“net” (“rhwyd”) means a trawl, Danish Seine or similar towed net; and\n“single trawl” (“treillrwyd unigol”) means a single net towed by a two warp rig in which the net has a single bosom groundrope (the bosom being the central portion of the trawl between the lower wings), where the groundrope is attached to the towing rig at each wing-end only and does not have any further attachment, including bridles, wires or ropes, connecting it to the said towing rig;\nand any other corresponding expression used in the Council Regulation has the same meaning in this Order as in that Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (1.11.2019) by The Sea Fishing (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1332), regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.8.2003, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/1855/article/2",
    "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."
}