{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009/section-239",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/23",
  "legislation_title": "Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009",
  "path": "section/239",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "239",
  "heading": "Marine enforcement officers as British sea-fishery officers",
  "text": "(1) Section 7 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77) (sea-fishery officers) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after paragraph (c) insert—\n“(ca) persons appointed as marine enforcement officers under section 235 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;”;\n(b) in paragraph (d), omit “of the Secretary of State or”.\n(3) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) A person falling within paragraph (b), (c) or (ca) of subsection (1) above may not exercise the powers or perform the duties of a British sea-fishery officer in any case where the person may, in the person's capacity as a marine enforcement officer, exercise the common enforcement powers conferred by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (see Chapter 1 of Part 8 of that Act).”\n(4) In subsection (5) (definition of “the appropriate Minister”), omit paragraph (a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 239 in force at 12.1.2010 by S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/section/239",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:47.916077+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."
}