{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-north-east-atlantic-control-measures-order-2000/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-north-east-atlantic-control-measures-order-2000/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1843",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (North-East Atlantic Control Measures) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-north-east-atlantic-control-measures-order-2000",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Obstruction of officers",
  "text": "Any person who—\n(a) fails without reasonable excuse to comply with any requirement imposed by a British sea-fishery officer under the powers conferred on British sea-fishery officers by articles 7 and 8 of this Order;\n(b) without reasonable excuse prevents, or attempts to prevent, any other person from complying with any such requirement; or\n(c) assaults a British sea-fishery officer or anyone accompanying that officer who is exercising any of the powers conferred on him by articles 7 and 8 of this Order or intentionally obstructs any such officer or person in the exercise of any of those powers,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable—\n(i) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or\n(ii) on conviction on indictment to a fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/664",
      "affecting_title": "The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (Fines on Summary Conviction) Regulations 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1843/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:32.926005+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."
}