# Merchant Shipping Act 1970, Paragraph 3


Any person serving or engaged to serve in a fishing vessel and holding any certificate or other document which is evidence that he is qualified for the purposes of section 43 of this Act shall on demand produce it to any person who is a British sea-fishery officer for the purposes of the Sea Fisheries Acts (within the meaning of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968); and if he fails to do so without reasonable cause he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/36/schedule/2/paragraph/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-act-1970/schedule-2/paragraph-3
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