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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-quota-measures-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/883",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-enforcement-of-community-quota-measures-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which revokes the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) Order 1996, as amended by the Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota Measures) (Amendment) Order 1996, makes provision for the enforcement of certain of the enforceable Community restrictions and other obligations relating to sea fishing set out in Council Regulation (EC) No. 390/97 (OJ No. L66, 6.3.97, p.1) (“the Council Regulation”). The Council Regulation fixes total allowable catches and member States’ quotas for 1997 and lays down certain conditions under which they may be fished.\nArticle 3 of the Order creates offences in respect of breaches of the provisions of the Council Regulation referred to in column 1 (and briefly described in column 2) of the Schedule to the Order. Penalties, which may include the forfeiture of fish, nets and other fishing gear, are specified for such offences (article 4). The statutory maximum penalty specified in the Schedule is currently £5,000.\nThe Order confers powers of enforcement on British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats and on land and in relation to the seizure of fish and fishing gear (articles 6, 7 and 8). Provision is made for the punishment of anyone found guilty of assaulting or obstructing an officer (article 10).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/883/note",
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  "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."
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