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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/504",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fish Licensing (Variation) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-licensing-variation-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order varies the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1989 which prohibits fishing, subject to exceptions, by British fishing boats in specified areas of sea for the principal species of sea fish, unless authorised by a licence.\nThis Order extends the scope of that prohibition to include fishing for all species of sea fish in ICES IIa (Norwegian Sea) and IV (North Sea) (article 2 and Schedule).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/504/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:25:13.396135+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."
}