{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tope-prohibition-of-fishing-order-2008/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tope-prohibition-of-fishing-order-2008/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/691",
  "legislation_title": "The Tope (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tope-prohibition-of-fishing-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this article, this Order applies within British fishery limits.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Articles 3 and 4 do not apply in the Northern Ireland zone, the Scottish zone, Wales or the territorial sea adjacent to the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.\n(4) In paragraph (3)—\n(a) “the Northern Ireland zone” has the meaning given by section 98 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998;\n(b) “the Scottish zone” has the meaning given by section 126(1) of the Scotland Act 1998; and\n(c) “Wales” has the meaning given by section 158(1) of the Government of Wales Act 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 13(2) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1 of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49), as extended to Jersey by the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Jersey) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/278), as amended by S.I. 2002/250 and to the Isle of Man by the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (Isle of Man) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1722)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1998 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2006 c. 32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/691/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:33:53.443031+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."
}