{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3266",
  "legislation_title": "The Sole (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sole-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition of fishing and exception",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, fishing for sole (Solea solea)—\n(a) by any British fishing boat registered in the United Kingdom within any part of a sea area; or\n(b) by any other British fishing boat within any part of a sea area which lies within British fishery limits,\nis prohibited during the period beginning with the date of coming into force of this Order and ending immediately before 1st January 1993.\n(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to any boat whose length exceeds 10 metres, except in the case of any boat used wholly for the purpose of conveying persons wishing to fish for pleasure with rod and line or by handline.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3266/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:07.790004+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."
}