{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-control-measures-order-2000/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-control-measures-order-2000/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-control-measures-order-2000",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents",
  "text": "(1) Any—\n(a) logbook kept under Articles 6, 17.2 or 28c;\n(b) declaration submitted under Articles 8.1, 11, 12, 17.2 or 28f;\n(c) effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;\n(d) document drawn up under Articles 9 or 13;\n(e) document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,\nof Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings in England or Northern Ireland for a relevant offence, be evidence of the matters stated therein.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean data relating to—\n(a) a fishing boat’s identification;\n(b) the most recent geographical position of the fishing boat expressed in degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude; and\n(c) the date and time of the fixing of that position,\nas communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 3.1 of Regulation 2847/93.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/51/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:45.543831+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."
}