{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-illegal-unreported-and-unregulated-fishing-order-2009/article-17",
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  "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/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Obstruction of officers",
  "text": "(1) A person is guilty of an offence if that person—\n(a) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed by an officer under the powers conferred by this Order;\n(b) without reasonable excuse, prevents, or attempts to prevent, any other person from complying with any such requirement;\n(c) conceals, tampers with or disposes of evidence relating to an investigation;\n(d) assaults an officer who is exercising any of the powers conferred by this Order; or\n(e) intentionally obstructs an officer in the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this Order.\n(2) In paragraph (1), “officer” has the same meaning as in article 16(2)",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/3391/article/17",
    "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."
}