{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-whiting-order-1992/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-whiting-order-1992/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1212",
  "legislation_title": "The Undersized Whiting Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/undersized-whiting-order-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescribed minimum size for sale etc. of whiting 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 length of 27 centimetres is hereby prescribed as the minimum size in relation to whiting.\n(2) The sale, exposure or offer for sale or possession for the purpose of sale of whiting 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/1992/1212/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:22:39.925367+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."
}