{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed minimum size for sale etc. of velvet crabs 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), there is hereby prescribed as the minimum size in relation to sea fish of the description of velvet crab a size of 65 mm.\n(2) The sale, exposure or offer for sale or possession for the purpose of sale of sea fish of the description of velvet crabs which are landed from foreign fishing boats and were caught in waters lying outside British fishery limits is exempted from the prohibition imposed by section 1(2) of the Act as read with paragraph 1 of this article.",
  "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. 3(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 2(4) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}