{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/48",
  "legislation_title": "Food and Environment Protection Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In order to perform functions under Part I or II or this Act an officer may require any person—\n(a) to give details of any substances or articles on board a vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or marine structure; and\n(b) to give information concerning any substances or articles lost from a vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or marine structure.\n(2) In order to perform any such functions an officer—\n(a) may require any vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or marine structure to stop; and\n(b) may require the attendance—\n(i) of the master, captain or commander of a vessel, aircraft or hovercraft;\n(ii) of the person in charge of a marine structure; and\n(iii) of any other person who is on board a vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or marine structure,\nand may require any person on board to assist him in the performance of his functions.\n(3) In order to perform functions under Part I or II of this Act an officer—\n(a) may require—\n(i) the master, captain or commander of a vessel, aircraft or hovercraft; and\n(ii) the person in charge of a marine structure,\nto take it and its crew to the port which appears to the officer to be the nearest convenient port; or\n(b) may take it there himself.\n(4) In order to perform any such functions an officer may detain a vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or marine structure.\n(5) If an officer detains a vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or marine structure, he shall serve on the master, captain, commander or person in charge a notice in writing stating that it is to be detained until the notice is withdrawn by the service on him of a further notice in writing signed by an officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), s. 146(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 extended (with modifications) (22.8.1997) by S.I. 1997/1770, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 extended (with modifications) (22.8.1997) by S.I. 1997/1771, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/48/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:06.673423+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."
}