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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968-commencement-no-1-order-1969/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1969/1551",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968-commencement-no-1-order-1969",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act shall come into force:—\nSection 5 (regulations of conduct of fishing operations)\nSection 6 (restriction on fishing within the fishery limits of the British Islands)\nSection 7 (sea-fishery officers)\nSection 8 (general powers of British sea-fishery officers)\nSection 9 (powers of sea-fishery officers to enforce conventions)\nSection 10 (miscellaneous provisions as to sea-fishery officers)\nSection 11 (evidence)\nSection 12 (recovery of fines imposed on master, etc. or crew)\nSection 13 (compensation for damage caused by offence)\nSection 14 (jurisdiction to try offences)\nPart II of Schedule 1 (minor and consequential amendments)\nPart II of Schedule 2 (enactments repealed) with the exception of the following provisions:—\nThe Sea Fisheries Act 1883 Sections 1 to 5, 11, 12, 14 to 22, in Section 25 the words “this Act shall apply to the whole of the British Islands as defined by this Act and to the seas surrounding the same whether within or without the fishery limits of the British Islands”, sections 26, 28 and 31 and Articles XIII to XXIII and XXX, XXXI and XXXIII of the First Schedule.\nThe Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1885 section 5\nThe Illegal Trawling (Scotland) Act 1934 section 3\nThe Sea Fisheries Act 1951 section 25\nThe Sea Fish Industry Act 1962 section 18\nThe Fishery Limits Act 1964 section 3(2)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1969/1551/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:06:23.498189+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."
}