{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shrimp-fishing-nets-wales-order-2008/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shrimp-fishing-nets-wales-order-2008/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2008/1811",
  "legislation_title": "The Shrimp Fishing Nets (Wales) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shrimp-fishing-nets-wales-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order:\n...\n“codend” (“pen y cwd”) means the rearmost part of a net, being made up of one or more panels comprising pieces of netting of the same mesh size attached to one another along their sides in the long axis of the net by a lacing;\n“equivalent Order” (“Gorchymyn cyfatebol”) means an order extending to any other part of the United Kingdom made under section 3 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 containing a similar provision to that in article 3; and\n“Wales” (“Cymru”) has the meaning given to it in section 158(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 .\n(2) For the purpose of this Order, the mesh of a net or netting is to be measured in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 517/2008 of 10 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No. 850/98 as regards the determination of the mesh size and assessing the thickness of twine of fishing nets.\n(3) Any reference in this Order to an EU instrument is a reference to that instrument as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 14(2)(a) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(2) substituted (20.11.2018) by The Sea Fishing (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1095), arts. 1(5), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 8-10"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2006 c. 32. This definition includes “the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2008/1811/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:57:52.218794+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."
}