# The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) Order 2003, Article 20: Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents


(1) Any—
(a) logbook kept under Article 6, 17(2) or 28c;
(b) declaration submitted under Article 8(1), 17(2) or 28f;
(c) effort report completed under Article 19b and 19c;
(d) document drawn up under Article 9 11, 12 or 13; or
(e) document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3(7),
of Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings in England and Wales for an offence under this Order or any equivalent provisions, be evidence of the matters stated therein and so shall any additional entry in a logbook made pursuant to this Order.
(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), “required information” shall mean—
(a) a fishing boat’s identification;
(b) the most recent geographical position of the fishing boat expressed in degrees and minutes of longitude and latitude; and
(c) the date and time of the fixing of that position,
as communicated via a satellite-based vessel monitoring system established under Article 3(1) of Regulation 2847/93.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/229/article/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-order-2003/article-20
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