{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-northern-hake-stock-wales-order-2006/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-northern-hake-stock-wales-order-2006/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1796",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Northern Hake Stock) (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-northern-hake-stock-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Powers of British sea-fishery officers in relation to fishing boats",
  "text": "(1) For the purpose of enforcing articles 3 to 8 of this Order or any equivalent provisions, or to operate or facilitate the operation of any monitoring deriving from Article 13 of Regulation 811/04, any British sea-fishery officer may exercise the powers conferred by this article in relation to any fishing boat in Wales.\n(2) The officer may go on board the boat, with or without persons assigned to assist with his or her duties, and may require the boat to stop and do anything else which will facilitate either the boarding of, or the disembarkation from, the boat.\n(3) The officer may require the attendance of the master and other persons on board the boat and may make any examination and inquiry which appears to the officer to be necessary for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (1) and, in particular—\n(a) may search for fish or fishing gear on the boat and may examine any fish on the boat and the equipment of the boat, including the fishing gear, and require persons on board the boat to do anything which appears to the officer to be necessary for facilitating the examination;\n(b) may require any person on board the boat to produce any document relating to the boat, to any fishing operations or other operations ancillary thereto or to the persons on board which is in that person’s custody or possession;\n(c) for the purpose of ascertaining whether an offence under any of those articles or any equivalent provision has been committed, may search the boat for any such document and may require any person on board the boat to do anything which appears to the officer to be necessary for facilitating the search;\n(d) may inspect and take copies of any such document produced to the officer or found on board and, where any such document is kept by means of a computer, require it to be produced in a form in which it may be taken away; and\n(e) where the boat is one in relation to which the officer has reason to suspect that an offence under any of those articles or any equivalent provision has been committed, may seize and detain any such document produced to the officer or found on board for the purpose of enabling the document to be used as evidence in proceedings for the offence;\nbut nothing in sub-paragraph (e) above permits any document required by law to be carried on board the boat to be seized and detained except while the boat is detained in a port.\n(4) Where it appears to a British sea-fishery officer that an offence under article 3, 6 or 7, or under any equivalent provision, has at any time been committed in respect of a fishing boat, the officer may—\n(a) require the master of the boat to take, or himself take, the boat and crew to the port which appears to the officer to be the nearest convenient port; and\n(b) detain, or require the master to detain, the boat in port;\nand where such an officer detains or requires the detention of the boat the officer will serve on the master a notice in writing stating that the boat is (or is required to be) detained until the notice is withdrawn by the service on the master of a further notice in writing signed by a British sea-fishery officer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1796/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:08.444281+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."
}