{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/77",
  "legislation_title": "Sea Fisheries Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Orders.",
  "text": "(1) Any power conferred on the Ministers by this Act to make an order shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(2) A statutory instrument containing an order made by the Ministers under any provision of this Act, . . . shall be laid before Parliament or, in the case of an order in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Parliament.\n(3) Any power conferred by this Act on the Ministers to make an order includes power to vary or revoke the order by a subsequent order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Sea Fish Industry Act 1970 (c. 11), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I, 1999/1820, art. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 48(4); S.I. 1998/3178"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 18(1)(2) excluded (28.3.2002) byThe Sea Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/790), art. 3(3), Sch. 3 {para.3(3)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 18(1)(2) excluded (28.3.2002) byThe Sea Fisheries (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/790), art. 3(3), Sch. 3 {para.3(3)}"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/77/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:22.328740+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."
}