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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-control-measures-order-2000/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-control-measures-order-2000/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Where there is, in respect of—\n(a) any relevant British fishing boat wherever it may be;\n(b) any other fishing boat which is within relevant British Fishery Limits;\n(c) any entry into seas within relevant British Fishery Limits by any fishing boat; or\n(d) any fishery products, premises or vehicle in England or Northern Ireland,\na contravention of, or failure to comply with, a Community control measure specified in Column 1 of the Schedule the persons specified in the appropriate entry in Column 5 of the Schedule shall each be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), any person who in purported compliance with Articles 6, 7, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.5, 11, 12, 13 or 17.2, Articles 19b and 19c or Articles 19e, 20.2, 28.2a, 28c, 28e or 28f of Regulation 2847/93, furnishes information which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly furnishes information which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) Paragraph (2) applies to any furnishing of information—\n(a) in England and Northern Ireland,\n(b) to a British sea-fishery officer performing any function under article 6 or 7 of this Order, or\n(c) in relation to any activity of a relevant British fishing boat, to the competent authorities in another Member State within the meaning of Regulation 2847/93.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/398",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/173",
      "affecting_title": "Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/350",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/393",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1847",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Control Measures) (Amendment) Order 2009 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/51/article/3",
    "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."
}