{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing-order-2009/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing-order-2009/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/3391",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing-order-2009",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person found guilty of an offence under article 9(1) to (9) or 17 of this Order, or under an equivalent provision, is liable on summary conviction, or on conviction on indictment, to a fine\n(2) A person found guilty of an offence under article 9(10) of this Order is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, to a fine or both.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(1) substituted (12.3.2015) by The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/664), reg. 1(1), Sch. 4 para. 77 (with reg. 5(1))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3391/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:57:28.546578+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."
}