{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-concurrent-functions-order-1999/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-concurrent-functions-order-1999/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1592",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Concurrent Functions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-concurrent-functions-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Scotland Act 1998;\n“British fishing boat” means a fishing boat, other than a Scottish fishing boat, which is registered in the United Kingdom or is British-owned; and\n“Scottish fishing boat” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Scotland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n(a) a reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section so numbered in the 1998 Act; and\n(b) a reference to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Order so numbered.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.7.1999, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1592/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:41:51.200319+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."
}