{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whiting-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3269",
  "legislation_title": "The Whiting (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/whiting-specified-sea-areas-prohibition-of-fishing-order-1992",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Title, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Whiting (Specified Sea Areas) (Prohibition of Fishing) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 23rd December 1992.\n(2) In this Order—\n“British fishing boat” means a fishing boat which is registered in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands or which, not being so registered, is British-owned;\n“sea area” means a statistical sub-area or division of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea specified in the Schedule hereto.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cmnd.2586."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3269/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:05.572379+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."
}