{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-migratory-trout-prohibition-of-fishing-variation-order-1983/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-migratory-trout-prohibition-of-fishing-variation-order-1983/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1983/59",
  "legislation_title": "The Salmon and Migratory Trout (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-migratory-trout-prohibition-of-fishing-variation-order-1983",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEA FISHERIES\nCONSERVATION OF SEA FISH\nMade 24th January 1983\nLaid before Parliament 25th January 1983\nComing into Operation 14th February 1983\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5(1) and 20(1) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 5(1) was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 22(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/59/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:08:18.691581+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."
}