{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-lobsters-order-1993/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-lobsters-order-1993/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1178",
  "legislation_title": "The Undersized Lobsters Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-lobsters-order-1993",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed minimum size for sale etc. of lobsters and exemptions from sale prohibitions",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 1(2) of the Act (which prohibits the sale, exposure or offer for sale or possession for the purpose of sale 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), a carapace length of 85 millimetres is hereby prescribed as the minimum size in relation to lobsters.\n(2) The sale, exposure or offer for sale or possession for the purpose of sale of lobsters which are landed from foreign fishing boats is exempted from the prohibitions imposed by section 1(2) of the Act as read with paragraph (1) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1178/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:57:28.860534+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."
}