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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-scallop-dredges-scotland-order-2005/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Scallop Dredges (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-scallop-dredges-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Regulation of scallop dredges",
  "text": "(1) No Scottish fishing boat or relevant British fishing boat shall carry or tow a scallop dredge within the Scottish zone unless the dredge complies with paragraph (2).\n(2) A dredge complies with this paragraph if–\n(a) it does not–\n(i) measure more than 86.5 centimetres or less than 60 centimetres in breadth in any part;\n(ii) have more than one row of flanking rings hanging from either side of the dredge perpendicular to the rings which hang from the belly rod; and\n(iii) have any tooth on the tooth bar which measures more than 22 millimetres;\n(b) where the dredge–\n(i) measures 80 centimetres or more in breadth in any part, it does not have–\n(aa) more than 8 rows of belly rings hanging from the belly rod;\n(bb) fewer than 5 columns or more than 8 rows of back rings hanging from the lifting bar;\n(cc) more than 9 teeth on the tooth bar, where each of the teeth measure 12 millimetres or less; or\n(dd) more than 8 teeth on the tooth bar, where any tooth measures more than 12 millimetres;\n(ii) does not measure 80 centimetres or more in breadth in any part, it does not have–\n(aa) more than 6 rows of belly rings hanging from the belly rod;\n(bb) fewer than 5 columns or more than 6 rows of back rings hanging from the lifting bar;\n(cc) more than 7 teeth on the tooth bar, where each of the teeth measure 12 millimetres or less; or\n(dd) more than 6 teeth on the tooth bar, where any tooth measures more than 12 millimetres.\n(3) For the purposes of this article the measurement of a tooth shall be its maximum width measured in the direction of the line of the tooth bar.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/371/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:54.276861+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."
}