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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-conservation-measures-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1949",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Conservation Measures) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-conservation-measures-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order–\n“British fishing boat” means a boat which is registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands;\n“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 894/97 laying down certain technical measures for the conservation of fishery resources;\n“fish” includes crustacea, molluscs and parts of fish;\n“local fisheries committee” means a local fisheries committee constituted by an order made, or having effect as if made, under section 1 of the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966;\n“specified Community provision” means a provision of the Council Regulation specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order, as read with any qualifying words relating to that provision in that column.\n(2) In this Order any reference to a document includes, in addition to a document in writing–\n(a) any map, plan, graph or drawing;\n(b) any photograph;\n(c) any disk, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are recorded so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom; and\n(d) any film (including microfilm), negative, tape, disk or other device in which one or more visual images are recorded so as to be capable (as aforesaid) of being reproduced therefrom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L132, 23.5.97, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1966 c. 38, section 1 was repealed in part by the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), section 272(1) and Schedule 30; and substituted in part by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), section 16 and Schedule 8, paragraph 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/424",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/268",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1949/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:40.012558+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."
}