{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-specified-western-waters-restrictions-on-landing-order-1990/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-specified-western-waters-restrictions-on-landing-order-1990/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2052",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Specified Western Waters) (Restrictions on Landing) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-specified-western-waters-restrictions-on-landing-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“British fishing boat” means a fishing boat which is registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or which, not being so registered, is British-owned;\n“Channel Island waters” means the waters within 12 miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea adjacent to any of the Channel Islands is measured but not extending beyond a line every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points of such baselines and the corresponding baselines of France;\n“ICES” followed by a roman numeral with or without a letter shall be construed as a reference to whichever of the statistical sub-areas and divisions of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea described in Schedule 1 to this Order is identified therein by that roman numeral or that roman numeral and letter as the case may be;\n“length” in relation to a boat, means the length calculated in accordance with the rules specified in Article 2(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2930/86 defining characteristics for fishing vessels.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd. 2586."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L274, 25.9.86, p. 1."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2052/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:58:59.828831+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."
}