{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-fishing-wales-order-2005/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-fishing-wales-order-2005/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1717",
  "legislation_title": "The Scallop Fishing (Wales) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-fishing-wales-order-2005",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Restriction on size of tow bars",
  "text": "(1) No British fishing boat is permitted, at any time, in any part of Welsh waters that lie within 3 nautical miles of the shore, (such distances being measured from baselines), to use a tow bar unless that tow bar complies with the requirements of paragraph (2);\n(2) The requirements referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows:\n(a) a tow bar must not exceed 3.8 metres in length, and\n(b) where a tow bar is 3.8 metres or less in length, it must not be constructed in such a way as to enable more than 4 scallop dredges to be attached to it at the same time.\n(3) No British fishing boat is permitted at any time, in any part of Welsh waters that lie beyond 3 nautical miles from the shore, (such distance being measured from baselines), to use a tow bar unless that tow bar complies with the requirements of paragraph (4);\n(4) The requirements referred to in paragraph (3) are as follows:\n(a) a tow bar must not exceed 7.6 metres in length, and\n(b) where a tow bar is 7.6 metres or less in length, it must not be constructed in such a way as to enable more than 8 scallop dredges to be attached to it at the same time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1717/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:00.846292+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."
}