{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-scotland-amendment-act-1885/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-scotland-amendment-act-1885/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/48-49/70",
  "legislation_title": "Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Amendment Act 1885",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fisheries-scotland-amendment-act-1885",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Fishery Board may require statistics of sea fisheries.",
  "text": "The Scottish Ministers shall have power to require all fishermen and other persons belonging to British sea-fishing boats, and all fish curers catching or curing any kind of sea fish in Scotland, or in the Scottish zone, to make returns, in such form and at such periods as may be prescribed by . . . the Scottish Ministers, of all sea fish which are caught or cured by them respectively.\nThe Scottish Ministers, before prescribing the form or period . . . for any such return, shall communicate with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and copies of all such returns shall be immediately furnished by the Scottish Ministers to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.\nAny person failing to make a full and correct return under this section shall be guilty of an offence against the . . . , and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scaleand sections 12(2) and 14 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968 shall apply to an offence under this section as they apply to an offence under section 5 or 10 of that Act or section 2 of the Fishery Limits Act 1976.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 6(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by S.R. & O. 1939/782 (Rev. XV, p. 172: 1939 II, p. 2933), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. & O. 1939/782 (Rev. XV, p. 172: 1939 II, p. 2933), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903 (c. 31), s. 1(6), Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1(1) and S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200), art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 1 para. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words substituted (S.) by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289(G)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words inserted by Sea Fisheries Act 1968 (c. 77), Sch. 1 para. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Fishery Limits Act 1976 (c. 86), s. 2(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 77."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1976 c. 86."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/48-49/70/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:02.464190+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."
}