# The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) (Scotland) Order 2004, Article 23: Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents


(1) Any–
(a) logbook kept under Articles 6, 17.2 or 28c;
(b) declaration submitted under Articles 8.1, 11, 12, 17.2 or 28f;
(c) effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;
(d) document drawn up under Articles 9 or 13;
(e) document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,
of Council Regulation 2847/93 of 12th October 1993 shall, in any proceedings in Scotland for an offence under this Order or any equivalent provision, be received in evidence without being produced or sworn to by any witness and shall, unless the contrary is shown, be conclusive evidence as the matters stated therein.
(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), “required information” means–
(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 Council Regulation 2847/93.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/44/article/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-scotland-order-2004/article-23
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