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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solent-european-marine-site-prohibition-of-method-of-dredging-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2696",
  "legislation_title": "The Solent European Marine Site (Prohibition of Method of Dredging) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solent-european-marine-site-prohibition-of-method-of-dredging-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“dredge” means any form of shellfish dredge used in conjunction with any means of injecting water into the dredge or into the vicinity of the dredge;\n“highest astronomical tide” means the highest level of tide which can be predicted to occur under average meteorological conditions and any combination of astronomical conditions;\n“latitude” means the angular distance north or south of the earth’s equator, measured in degrees along a meridian, as on a map or globe;\n“longitude” means the angular distance of any place on the earth’s surface east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, measured in degrees up to 180 degrees east or west;\n“Northern Ireland zone” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act; and\n“Solent European Marine Site” means the areas specified in the Schedule to this Order.\n(2) In this Order—\n(a) the term “relevant British fishery limits” does not include—\n(i) the Northern Ireland zone;\n(ii) the territorial sea adjacent to Wales;\n(iii) the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man;\n(iv) the territorial sea adjacent to the Bailiwick of Jersey; and\n(v) seas within British fishery limits adjacent to Guernsey, as defined by section 8 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976 as extended to Guernsey.\n(b) the term “relevant British fishing boat” does not include a vessel whose entry in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 specifies a port in Northern Ireland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 86; see also paragraph 3(c) of the Schedule to the Fishery Limits Act (Guernsey) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2407)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2696/article/2",
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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."
}