{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shellfish-specified-sea-area-prohibition-of-fishing-methods-wales-order-2003/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shellfish-specified-sea-area-prohibition-of-fishing-methods-wales-order-2003/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/607",
  "legislation_title": "The Shellfish (Specified Sea Area) (Prohibition of Fishing Methods) (Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shellfish-specified-sea-area-prohibition-of-fishing-methods-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEA FISHERIES, WALES\nMade 6th March 2003\nComing into force 9th March 2003\nThe National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5, 5A and 15(3) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, and now vested in it, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 84."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999 No. 672) the functions of “the Ministers” under the Act were transferred to the National Assembly."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/607/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:41.733389+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."
}