{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-scotland-order-2004/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-scotland-order-2004/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Landing of cod at a designated port",
  "text": "(1) A person in charge of a relevant fishing boat which lands cod or a foreign fishing boat which lands cod within Scotland in contravention of paragraph 17 of Annex V as read with paragraph (3) of this article is guilty of an offence.\n(2) If cod is first landed in a designated port within the United Kingdom an appropriate sample of at least 20% of all landings of cod of 2 tonnes or more shall be weighed in the presence of a British sea-fishery officer prior to being offered for first sale, unless the following requirements are met–\n(a) the boat is party to an arrangement made among vessels using the ports with a person or organisation to act as its controller for the purposes of paragraph 20 of Annex V; and,\n(b) details of the arrangement, and the vessels which are party to it, have been notified to the Scottish Ministers.\n(3) A person in charge of a relevant fishing boat or foreign fishing boat who fails to comply with a requirement to weigh cod imposed in respect of that boat by a British sea fishery officer or a person or organisation acting as a controller for the purpose of paragraph 20 of Annex V is guilty of an offence.\n(4) For landings in the United Kingdom the ports, and where applicable the landing locations within them, designated for the purposes of paragraph 17 of Annex V are the ports specified in the Schedule to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/44/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:33:07.333946+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."
}