{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pur-fleet-kings-lynn-order-1999/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pur-fleet-kings-lynn-order-1999/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2587",
  "legislation_title": "The Pur Fleet (King’s Lynn) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pur-fleet-kings-lynn-order-1999",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Byelaws",
  "text": "(1) The Council may make byelaws in connection with this Order for all or any of the following purposes:—\n(a) for regulating or preventing fishing in the creek, whether generally or by such means, and for such types of fish, as may be specified in the byelaws,\n(b) for preventing swimming in the creek,\n(c) for regulating or preventing the placing of vessels or any other object in the creek,\n(d) for prohibiting or regulating the discharge into the creek of any material or substance.\n(2) In paragraph (1)(a) above “fish” includes any marine creature, or any other creature which lives in the waters of the creek, and “fishing” shall be construed accordingly.\n(3) Byelaws made under this article may provide for the imposition on any person offending against any byelaws of a fine on summary conviction not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) In its application to byelaws relating to the creek made by the Council under any enactment, section 236 of the Local Government Act 1972 shall have effect as if in subsection (7) after the word “confirm” where it first occurs the words “with or without modification” were inserted.\n(5) Where the Secretary of State proposes to make to any byelaws submitted to him for confirmation a modification which appears to him to be substantial he shall inform the Council and require them to take any steps he considers necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with the modification and shall not confirm the byelaws until such period has elapsed as he thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the Council and by other persons who have been informed of it.\n(6) The Secretary of State may charge the Council a reasonable fee for the purpose of defraying any administrative expenses incurred by him in respect of byelaws made under this article which are submitted to him for confirmation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2587/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:51:48.745040+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."
}