{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009/section-257",
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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/257",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "257",
  "heading": "Power to require production of licence, etc",
  "text": "(1) Where an enforcement officer reasonably believes—\n(a) that a person is or has been carrying on a relevant activity, and\n(b) that the person requires a licence or other authority to carry on that activity,\nthe officer may require the person to produce that licence or other authority.\n(2) If the person is unable to produce the licence or other authority when required to do so, the person must produce it at such place, and within such period of time, as the officer may specify.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 257 in force at 12.1.2010 by S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/section/257",
    "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."
}