{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/919",
  "legislation_title": "The Undersized Velvet Crabs Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-velvet-crabs-order-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEA FISHERIES\nCONSERVATION OF SEA FISH\nMade 25th May 1989\nLaid before Parliament 9th June 1989\nComing into force 1st July 1989\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretaries of State respectively concerned with the sea fishing industry in Scotland and Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 1(1), (2) and (6) and 22(2) of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967() and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and the said Minister, the said Secretaries of State and the Secretary of State concerned with the sea fishing industry in Northern Ireland, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 1(3), 15(3) and 22(2) of the said Act() and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 84; section 1 was substituted by the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29), section 19(1); section 22(2), which contains a definition of “the Ministers” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which this Order is made, was amended by the Fisheries Act 1981, sections 19(2) and 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 15(3) was substituted by the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Schedule 1, paragraph 38(3), and amended by the Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), Schedule 2, paragraph 16(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/919/introduction",
    "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."
}