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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solway-firth-regulated-fishery-scotland-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/57",
  "legislation_title": "The Solway Firth Regulated Fishery (Scotland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solway-firth-regulated-fishery-scotland-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“the 1967 Act” means the Sea Fisheries (Shellfish) Act 1967;\n“the Association” means the Solway Shellfish Management Association, a company limited by guarantee (number SC211971) and having its registered office at Solway Heritage, Campbell House, The Crichton, Bankend Road, Dumfries, DG1 4ZB;\n“the fishery” means those portions of the shore and bed of the sea, the estuaries and the tidal rivers which lie within the area bounded by the mean high-water mark of ordinary spring tides, by a straight line extending due east from the Isle of Whithorn at a point at 54°41'46\" North latitude and 04°22'00\" West longitude and by the line referred to in article 3(b)(i) of the Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999;\n“the fishing season” means the period of 12 months from 15th September in any year to 14th September in the following year, inclusive of both dates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/1126."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/57/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:21:34.444717+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."
}