{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solent-oyster-fishery-variation-clams-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solent-oyster-fishery-variation-clams-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/828",
  "legislation_title": "The Solent Oyster Fishery (Variation) (Clams) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solent-oyster-fishery-variation-clams-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEA FISHERIES\nSHELLFISH\nMade 18th March 1996\nLaid before Parliament 18th March 1996\nComing into force 12th April 1996\nWhereas an application for an Order under section 1 of the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967 to vary the Solent Oyster Fishery Order 1980 was made to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the local fisheries committee for the Southern Sea Fisheries District (hereinafter referred to as “the Committee”);\nAnd whereas the said Minister prepared a draft Order and served a copy of it on the Committee in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the said Act;\nAnd whereas the Committee caused printed copies of the draft Order to be published and circulated, and gave notice of the application, in accordance with paragraph 2 of the said Schedule;\nAnd whereas objections were received by the said Minister under paragraph 3 of the said Schedule;\nAnd whereas the said Minister considered the said objections to be frivolous or irrelevant;\nAnd whereas the said Minister thinks it expedient to make the Order;\nNow, therefore, the said Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 1 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and with the consent of the Crown Estate Commissioners, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 83; section 1 was amended by section 15(2) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) and paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86) and is to be read with section 15(3) to (5) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 and S.I. 1987/218; Schedule 1 was amended by section 15(7) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968; section 22(1) contains a definition of “the Minister”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1373."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/828/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:22.427576+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."
}