{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2012/2729",
  "legislation_title": "The Scallop Dredging Operations (Tracking Devices) (Wales) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scallop-dredging-operations-tracking-devices-wales-order-2012",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Failure of a Tracking Device",
  "text": "(1) If a tracking device installed pursuant to article 3 is incapable of transmitting the required information, the person in charge of the fishing boat upon which that tracking device is installed must—\n(a) ensure that that boat is not used to fish for scallops; and\n(b) notify the Welsh Ministers that the tracking device is incapable of transmitting the required information.\n(2) A notification under paragraph (1)(b) must include the port letters and port number of the fishing boat upon which the relevant tracking device is installed.\n(3) When a tracking device to which paragraph (1) applies has been repaired or replaced so that the fishing boat upon which that device was installed is able to transmit the required information in accordance with article 3, the person in charge of that boat must notify the Welsh Ministers that that boat is able to comply with article 3 before that boat may be used to fish for, take or kill scallops.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 19(3)(a), (4)(d) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 19(3)(a), (4)(d) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by Fisheries Act 2020 (c. 22), s. 54(3)(a), Sch. 2 para. 19(3)(a), (4)(d) (with s. 50, Sch. 4 para. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.11.2012, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/2729/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:51.453801+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."
}