{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-industry-act-1962/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-industry-act-1962/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/31",
  "legislation_title": "Sea Fish Industry Act 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-industry-act-1962",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“land” includes land covered by water;\n“migratory trout” means trout which migrate to and from the sea;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“salmon” includes any fish of the salmon species;\n“sea-fish” means fish of any description found in the sea, including shellfish and salmon and migratory trout;\n“shellfish” includes crustaceans and molluscs of any kind, and includes any part of a shellfish and any (or any part of any) brood, ware, half-ware or spat of shellfish, and any spawn of shellfish, and the shell, or any part of the shell, of a shellfish, and references in this Act to shellfish of any particular description shall be construed accordingly;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In this Act . . . “the Ministers”—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in . . . section eighteen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, . . ., and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Northern Ireland, and\n(c) in section seventeen of this Act, means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, . . ., and the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland and, in relation to Scotland, “the Ministers”, and any reference to one of the Ministers, means the Scottish Ministers.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3, Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch. and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definition repealed (E.W.)(S.) by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 (c. 83), Sch. 3 and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Definition of “appropriate Minister” repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 33(2)(a) repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch. and Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 33(2)(b) repealed (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 33(a), Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 33(2)(c) repealed (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 33(b), Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1963, No. 77, art. 4(2) and Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 5 para. 8(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 33(2)(c) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 33(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Ss. 2, 31, 33(3) repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 2 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Ss. 29, 30, 33(4)(5), Sch. 3 repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "“The said Secretary of State” means the Secretary of State concerned with the sea-fishing industry in Scotland"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/31/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:04:07.310462+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."
}