{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whelk-fishing-wales-order-2019/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whelk-fishing-wales-order-2019/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2019/1042",
  "legislation_title": "The Whelk Fishing (Wales) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whelk-fishing-wales-order-2019",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context requires otherwise—\n“the Act” (“y Ddeddf”) means the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 ;\n...\n“Specified minimum size” (“maint lleiaf penodedig”) means—\n(i)55 millimetres before 4 July 2020, and\n(ii)65 millimetres on and after 4 July 2020;\n“Wales” (“Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 ;\n“Welsh zone” (“parth Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 ; and\n“Whelk” (“cregyn moch”) means shellfish of the species Buccinum undatum.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 21(2)(b) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 84."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "2006 c. 32; Section 158(1) was amended by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), section 43(1) and (2). For the purposes of the definition of “Wales” in section 158(1) of the 2009 Act, the boundary between those parts of the sea within the Severn and Dee Estuaries which are to be treated as adjacent to Wales and those which are not are, in each case, a line drawn between the co-ordinates set out in Schedule 3 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). By virtue of section 162 of and paragraph 26 of Schedule 11 to the 2006 Act, S.I. 1999/672 continues to have effect."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "The Welsh zone is specified in S.I. 2010/760."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 4.7.2019, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/1042/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:58.761690+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."
}