{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/77",
  "legislation_title": "Sea Fisheries Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-act-1968",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Fishing boats and gear lost or abandoned at sea.",
  "text": "Without prejudice to section 236(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (delivery of wreck to receiver), fishing boats or fishing gear lost or abandoned at sea and either—\n(a) found or taken possession of within the territorial waters of the United Kingdom; or\n(b) found or taken possession of beyond those waters and brought within those waters;\nshall be treated as wreck for the purposes of Part IX of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (1.1.1996) by 1995 c. 21, ss. 314(2), 316(2), Sch. 13 para. 43(b) (with s. 312(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/77/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:22.328740+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."
}