{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-lobsters-scotland-order-2000/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-lobsters-scotland-order-2000/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2000/197",
  "legislation_title": "The Undersized Lobsters (Scotland) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-lobsters-scotland-order-2000",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed minimum size for landing lobsters",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 1(1) of the Act (which prohibits the landing in Scotland of any sea fish of any description, being a fish of a smaller size as may be prescribed in relation to sea fish of that description), there is hereby prescribed as the minimum size for lobsters a size of 87 millimetres.\n(2) Landing from foreign fishing boats is exempted from the prohibition imposed by section 1(1) of the Act as read with paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2015/183",
      "affecting_title": "The Outer Hebrides (Landing of Crabs and Lobsters) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/50",
      "affecting_title": "The Orkney Islands (Landing of Crabs and Lobsters) Order 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/50",
      "affecting_title": "The Orkney Islands (Landing of Crabs and Lobsters) Order 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2015/183",
      "affecting_title": "The Outer Hebrides (Landing of Crabs and Lobsters) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2015/183",
      "affecting_title": "The Outer Hebrides (Landing of Crabs and Lobsters) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2016/50",
      "affecting_title": "The Orkney Islands (Landing of Crabs and Lobsters) Order 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/197/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:50:24.902918+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."
}