# The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) Order 2000, Article 12: Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents


(1) Any—
(a) logbook kept under Articles 6, 17.2 or 28c;
(b) declaration submitted under Articles 8.1, 11, 12, 17.2 or 28f;
(c) effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;
(d) document drawn up under Articles 9 or 13;
(e) document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,
of Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings in England or Northern Ireland for a relevant offence, be evidence of the matters stated therein.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean data relating to—
(a) a fishing boat’s identification;
(b) the most recent geographical position of the fishing boat expressed in degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude; and
(c) the date and time of the fixing of that position,
as communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 3.1 of Regulation 2847/93.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/51/article/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-control-measures-order-2000/article-12
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.