{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-57.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1820",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/57",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86)",
  "text": "(1) The Fishery Limits Act 1976 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2 (access to British fisheries)–\n(a) before “British fishery limits”, in each place where those words appear, there is inserted “relevant”; and\n(b) after subsection (8) there is inserted–\n“(9) This section applies to Scotland with the modifications that–\n(a) for “relevant British fishery limits”, in each place where it appears, there is substituted “the Scottish zone”;\n(b) for “those limits” or “limits”, in each place where those words occur, there is substituted “that zone” or “zone” respectively; and\n(c) in subsection (7) for “either House of Parliament” there is substituted “the Scottish Parliament”.”.\n(3) In section 8 (interpretation)–\n(a) there is inserted in the appropriate places–\n““relevant British fishery limits” means British fishery limits so far as they do not relate to the Scottish zone;”; and\n““the Scottish zone” has the same meaning as in the Scotland Act 1998;”; and\n(b) in the definition of “the Ministers”–\n(i) after “means” there is inserted “, in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland,”; and\n(ii) at the end there is inserted “and, in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 57 in force at 1.7.1999, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 2 was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), Schedule 5, the Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 26), Schedule 2, and the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12), Schedule 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 8 was amended by the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 (c. 12), Schedule 6; the Merchant Shipping (Registration, etc.) Act 1993 (c. 22), Schedule 2, and the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (c. 21), Schedule 13."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1820/schedule/2/paragraph/57",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:54.889802+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."
}