{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-order-1994/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-order-1994/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2329",
  "legislation_title": "The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-estuary-cockle-fishery-order-1994",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Power to impose restrictions and make regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Committee may, with the consent of the Minister, from time to time impose restrictions on, and make regulations respecting, the dredging, fishing for and taking of cockles within the whole or any specified part of the regulated fishery.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above, regulations may be made under that paragraph for the purpose of—\n(a) determining the size below which or above which it shall be unlawful to take cockles from the regulated fishery or to remove them from one part of the regulated fishery to another; and\n(b) determining the size or description of vessels, dredges and fishing instruments to be used in dredging, fishing for or taking cockles.\n(3) The production of a copy of any regulation purporting to be certified by an officer authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall be conclusive evidence of the existence of the regulation and of the due making of it.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2329/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:26:37.438162+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."
}