{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-edible-crabs-order-2000/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-edible-crabs-order-2000/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed minimum size for edible crabs landed in certain areas outside the Eastern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation District",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 1(1) of the Act (which prohibits the landing in England and Wales of any sea fish of any description, being a fish of a smaller size than such size as may be prescribed in relation to sea fish of that description), there is hereby prescribed as the minimum size for edible crab, in relation to each area specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Order, the appropriate size specified for the particular sex of edible crab specified in relation to that area in column 2 of that Schedule.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 5(2) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "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. 3 in force at 28.8.2000, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2029/article/3",
    "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."
}