{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2012/2729",
  "legislation_title": "The Scallop Dredging Operations (Tracking Devices) (Wales) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“nominated receiver” (“derbynnydd enwebedig”) means the body nominated by the Welsh Ministers from time to time to receive the required information transmitted by a tracking device in accordance with this Order;\n“person in charge” (“person sydd â gofal”) means, in relation to a fishing boat, the owner, master or charterer, if any, of the fishing boat or the agent of any of them;\n“port letters” (“llythrennau porthladd”) has the meaning given in regulation 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993;\n“port number” (“rhif porthladd”) has the meaning given in regulation 1 of the Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Regulations 1993;\n“required information” (“yr wybodaeth ofynnol”) means the information set out in article 5;\n“scallop” (“cregyn bylchog”) means shellfish of the species Pecten maximus;\n“scallop dredge” (“llusgrwyd cregyn bylchog”) includes any appliance with a rigid framed mouth which is towed through the water and is manufactured, adapted, used or intended for use for the purpose of fishing for scallops;\n“tracking device” (“dyfais olrhain”) means a device which is capable of transmitting the required information;\n“Wales” (“Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006; and\n“WGS 84” (“WGS 84”) means the World Geodetic System revised in 1984 and further revised in 2004.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 19(2)(a) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.11.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/3138. The definitions of “port letters” and “port number” in regulation 1 of S.I. 1993/3138 were amended by S.I. 1999/3206, regulations 2 and 3(a) and (d). There are other amendments to regulation 1 of S.I. 1993/3138 which are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c. 32. Section 158(1) was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), section 43(1) and (2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/2729/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:51.453801+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."
}