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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-conservation-measures-wales-order-2000/article-9",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2000/2230",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Conservation Measures) (Wales) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-conservation-measures-wales-order-2000",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Powers of other officers",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of article 3 of this Order, or any equivalent provision in any other order extending to any part of the United Kingdom made for the purposes of implementing a specified Community measure, in so far as any such provision applies to undersized fish, any of the officers listed in paragraph (2) below may, when acting in Wales or within the sea adjacent to Wales, at all reasonable times –\n(a) go on board any British fishing boat,\n(b) enter any land or premises (other than a dwelling) used for carrying on any business in connection with the treatment, storage or sale of fish,\n(c) may search for and examine any fish in any place, whether on board a fishing boat or elsewhere, and whether in a receptacle or not; and\n(d) may seize any fish in respect of which the officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that a relevant offence in relation to undersized fish has been committed.\n(2) The officers referred to paragraph (1) of this article are –\n(a) any officer authorised by the National Assembly for Wales,\n(b) any officer of a market authority in Wales, acting within the limits of any market which that authority has power to regulate; and\n(c) any fishery officer of a local fisheries committee acting within any part of the district of the committee which lies in Wales or within the sea adjacent to Wales.\n(3) For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of article 3 of this Order, or any equivalent provision in any other order extending to any part of the United Kingdom made for the purposes of implementing a specified Community measure, in so far as it relates to nets and other fishing gear, any fishery officer of a local fisheries committee may, within any part of the district of the committee which lies in Wales or within the sea adjacent to Wales, go on board any British fishing boat and search for and examine all nets or other fishing gear and any fish carried in that boat, and may seize any net or other fishing gear in respect of which the officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that a relevant offence in relation to nets or other fishing gear has been committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting": "uksi/2010/630",
      "affecting_title": "The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2010/630",
      "affecting_title": "The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2010/630",
      "affecting_title": "The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1, Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England and Wales) Order 2010"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2000/2230/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:18:28.243777+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."
}