{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-specified-sea-area-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-specified-sea-area-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2075",
  "legislation_title": "The Sole (Specified Sea Area) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-specified-sea-area-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prohibits fishing for sole in sea area ICES Statistical Division VIIe by any British fishing boat which does not exceed 10 metres in length or which is used for the purposes of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure (article 2).\nThe prohibition of fishing set out above shall apply–\n(a) within any part of the sea area specified in the Schedule to the Order if the boat is registered in the United Kingdom, or\n(b) within any part of the sea area which lies within British fishery limits if the boat is registered in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or, not being registered, is British-owned,\nduring the period beginning with the date of coming into force of the Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1999 (article 2).\nBy virtue of section 5(6) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (as amended by section 22(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981), where, in the course of any fishing operations conducted in the above-mentioned sea area, fish caught in contravention of this Order are taken on board a boat to which this Order applies, those fish shall (subject to section 9 of that Act) be returned to the sea forthwith.\nBritish sea-fishery officers are given certain enforcement powers for the purpose of the enforcement of the Order (article 3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2075/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:28.838348+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."
}