{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985/section-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-and-environment-protection-act-1985/section-10.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": "section/10",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Power to take remedial action.",
  "text": "(1) A licensing authority may carry out any operation which appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of protecting the marine environment, the living resources which it supports and human health, or of preventing interference with legitimate use of the sea, in any case where anything for which a licence is needed appears to have been done otherwise than in pursuance of a licence and in accordance with its provisions.\n(2) If a licensing authoritycarries out an operation under subsection (1) above, he may recover any expenses reasonably incurred by him in carrying it out from any person who has been convicted of an offence in consequence of the act or omission which made it appear to the licensing authority to be necessary or expedient to carry out the operation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(1) substituted (30.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1756, art. 2, Sch. para. 10(8)(a) (with art. 8); S.I. 1998/3178"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 10(2) substituted (30.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1756, art. 2, Sch. para. 10(8)(b) (with art. 8); S.I. 1998/3178"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 10 power to transfer functions conferred (1.12.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 22(1)(c)(5), Sch. 3 Pt. I, para. 4(1)(a) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2789, art. 2S. 10 amended (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, art. 4, Sch 3 ( with art. 7); S.I. 1998/3178"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 10 continued (S.) (6.4.2011) by The Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/202), arts. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 10(1) modified (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 5, Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/48/section/10",
    "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."
}