{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exception",
  "text": "Article 3 does not apply to a fishing boat which—\n(a) is not engaged in any fishing operation in Wales in relation to scallops; and\n(b) has all scallop dredges attached to that boat stowed and secured out of the water.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 19(3)(a), (4)(b) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in force at 1.11.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/2729/article/4",
    "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."
}