{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-fishing-england-order-2012/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-fishing-england-order-2012/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2283",
  "legislation_title": "The Scallop Fishing (England) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-fishing-england-order-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“baselines” has the same meaning as in the Territorial Sea Act 1987 ;\n...\n“scallop” means a shellfish of the species Pecten maximus;\n“scallop dredge” means 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(2) For the purposes of this Order, a reference to a specified “ICES division” is a reference to a statistical division of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea set out in the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 18(2) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1987 c.49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), set up under intergovernmental agreement (the ICES Convention), coordinates and promotes marine research on oceanography, the marine environment, the marine ecosystem, and on living marine resources in the North Atlantic."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2283/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:20:05.945067+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."
}