{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-specified-area-prohibition-of-fixed-engines-wales-order-2010/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-specified-area-prohibition-of-fixed-engines-wales-order-2010/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2010/2915",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fish (Specified Area) (Prohibition of Fixed Engines) (Wales) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fish-specified-area-prohibition-of-fixed-engines-wales-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“fixed engine” (“offer gosod”) includes—\n(a) a stake net, bag net, putt or putcher;\n(b) any fixed implement or engine for taking or facilitating the taking of fish;\n(c) any net secured by anchors and any net or other implement for taking fish fixed to the soil, or made stationary in any other way; and\n(d) any net placed or suspended in any inland waters or tidal waters unattended by the owner or a person duly authorised by the owner to use it for taking sea fish, and any engine, device, machine or contrivance, whether floating or otherwise, for placing or suspending such a net or maintaining it in working order or making it stationary;\n“inland waters” (“dyfroedd mewndirol.”) has the meaning given in section 221(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n“migratory trout” (“brithyll mudo”) means trout which migrate to and from the sea;\n“salmon” (“eog”) includes any fish of the salmon species;\n“sea fish” (“pysgod môr.”) means fish of any kind found in the sea, including shellfish, salmon and migratory trout;\n“the specified area” (“yr ardal benodedig”) means any inland waters or tidal waters in Wales;\n“tidal waters” (“dyfroedd llanw”) means any part of the sea or any part of a river within the ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides; and\n“Wales” (“Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.1.2011, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 c. 32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2010/2915/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:52:41.696724+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."
}