{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-edible-crabs-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-edible-crabs-order-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2029",
  "legislation_title": "The Undersized Edible Crabs Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-edible-crabs-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;\n“Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation District” means the inshore fisheries and conservation district established on 1st October 2010 by the Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Order 2010;\n“edible crab” means crab of the species Cancer pagurus;\n“size”, in relation to an edible crab, means the maximum width of the carapace measured perpendicular to the antero-posterior midline of the carapace and shall be measured as shown in Schedule 1 to this Order.\n(2) In this Order—\n(a) the term “within relevant British fishery limits” does not include:\n(i) the territorial sea adjacent to Wales;\n(ii) the territorial sea adjacent to the Isle of Man;\n(iii) the territorial sea adjacent to the Bailiwick of Jersey; and,\n(iv) seas within British fishery limits adjacent to Guernsey, as defined by section 8 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976;\n(b) any reference to any relevant British fishing boat “wherever it may be” does not include such a fishing boat while in the territorial sea adjacent to Wales;\n(c) the term “any equivalent order” means any other order made under section 6 of the Act, extending to any part of the United Kingdom, which prohibits the landing in any part of the United Kingdom of edible crabs which have not attained a size of 130 millimetres and have been caught in waters within British fishery limits which are outside the Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation District.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2011) by The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/603), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Order substituted (1.4.2011) by The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/603), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 28.8.2000, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976, c. 86; as modified by paragraph 3(c) of the Schedule to the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (Guernsey) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2407)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2029/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:04:27.951487+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."
}