{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/919",
  "legislation_title": "The Undersized Velvet Crabs Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Undersized Velvet Crabs Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st July 1989.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967;\n“velvet crab” means crab of the species Liocarcinus puber;\n“size”, in relation to a velvet crab, means the width of the carapace measured across the broadest part, excluding spines, of the back;\n“the English zone” means the sea within British fishery limits other than—\n(a)the Scottish zone,\n(b)the Northern Ireland zone, and\n(c)the Welsh zone;\n“the Northern Ireland zone” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (W.) (1.2.2016) by The Specified Crustaceans (Prohibition on Fishing, Landing, Sale and Carriage) (Wales) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2076), arts. 1(1), 7(3) and (S.) (25.2.2018) by The Specified Crustaceans (Prohibition on Landing, Sale and Carriage) (Scotland) Order 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/455), arts. 1(1), 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 1(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 2(2) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.7.1989, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/919/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:45.207098+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."
}