{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-order-2003/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/229",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-order-2003",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Powers of British sea-fishery officers to seize fish and fishing gear",
  "text": "(1) This article applies—\n(a) in England and Wales,\n(b) to any relevant British fishing boat wherever it may be, and\n(c) to any other British or any foreign fishing boat which is within relevant British fishery limits.\n(2) Where this article applies, any British sea-fishery officer may seize—\n(a) any fish (including any receptacle which contains the fish) in respect of which he has reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence under article 3(1), 8, 9 or 10, or under any equivalent provision, has been committed; and\n(b) any fishing gear which he has reasonable grounds to suspect has been used in the course of, or in activities leading to, the commission of such an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/229/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:41.334170+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."
}