{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-operations-monitoring-devices-wales-order-2022/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-operations-monitoring-devices-wales-order-2022/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2022/70",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing Operations (Monitoring Devices) (Wales) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-operations-monitoring-devices-wales-order-2022",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“fishing operations” (“gweithrediadau pysgota”) means catching fish and includes activities ancillary thereto;\n“Fleet Register Number” (“Rhif Cofrestr Fflyd”) means—\n(a) the United Kingdom fleet register number assigned to the vessel by the Secretary of State as referred to in Article 8 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/218; or\n(b) the common fleet register number assigned to the vessel by a member State as referred to in Article 8 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/218 on the Union fishing fleet register ;\n“IRCS” (“IRCS”) means the international radio call sign of the fishing boat;\n“length” (“hyd”) in relation to a fishing boat, means the length calculated in accordance with the rules specified in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1130 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 defining characteristics for fishing vessels;\n“monitoring device” (“dyfais fonitro”) means a device which has a unique identification number and is capable of transmitting the required information every 30 seconds;\n“relevant fishing boat” (“cwch pysgota perthnasol”) means a fishing vessel of less than 12 metres in length which is licensed under section 15 or section 17 of the Fisheries Act 2020, other than a Welsh fishing boat;\n“the person in charge” (“person sydd â gofal”) means the owner, master and charterer, if any, of the fishing boat;\n“the required information” (“yr wybodaeth ofynnol”) means the information specified in article 4;\n“Welsh fishing boat” (“cwch pysgota Cymreig”) means a fishing vessel of less than 12 metres in length which is—\n(a) registered in the United Kingdom under Part 2 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and whose entry in that register specifies a port in Wales at which the vessel is to be treated as belonging; and\n(b) licensed under section 15 of the Fisheries Act 2020.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2017/218."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 34, 9.2.2017, p. 9."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The international radio call sign is allocated to a fishing boat by the national telecommunications authority to all vessels with radio equipment on board, as part of the radio licensing process. Each country is allocated a call sign series by the International Telecommunication Union."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "EUR 2017/1130."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2020 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1995 c. 21. Part 2 has been amended by S.I. 2002/794 and S.I 2015/664."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2022/70/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:14.911261+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."
}