{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-2020/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-2020/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/22",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-2020",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Joint fisheries statement: procedure",
  "text": "(1) The fisheries policy authorities may at any time prepare and publish a replacement JFS or amendments of a JFS.\n(2) Part 1 of Schedule 1 contains provision applying in relation to the preparation and publication by the fisheries policy authorities of a JFS or amendments of a JFS.\n(3) A JFS or an amendment of a JFS comes into effect when it is published in accordance with that Part of that Schedule.\n(4) The fisheries policy authorities must review a JFS whenever they consider it appropriate to do so and in any event—\n(a) before the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the day on which it was published, and\n(b) in the case of a JFS that has already been reviewed, before the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the end of the most recent review.\n(5) If, in the light of a review, the fisheries policy authorities conclude that changes are required to the JFS they must—\n(a) prepare and publish amendments of the JFS, or\n(b) prepare and publish a replacement JFS.\n(6) For the purposes of this section, a review of a JFS ends—\n(a) if the fisheries policy authorities conclude in the light of the review that no changes are required to the JFS, at the time they reach that conclusion;\n(b) if the fisheries policy authorities conclude in the light of the review that changes are required to the JFS, at the time the document mentioned in subsection (5) is published.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/22/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:19.398570+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."
}