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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-etc-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-variation-order-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Sole, etc. (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) (Variation) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-etc-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-variation-order-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct an error in S.I. 1997/3054 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nSEA FISHERIES\nMade 4th February 1998\nLaid before Parliament 4th February 1998\nComing into force 26th February 1998\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 5(1), 20(1) and 22(2)(a) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 84; section 5(1) was substituted by section 22(1) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29); section 22(2)(a) which contains a definition of “the Ministers” for the purposes of section 5 was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2)(d) and 45(b)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/207/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
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