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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sea-fishing-restriction-on-days-at-sea-scotland-order-2004/article-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Use of regulated gear",
  "text": "(1) A person in charge of a relevant fishing boat which fishes in contravention of the notification requirement in the first sub paragraph of paragraph 7 of Annex V is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person in charge of a relevant fishing boat which carries or uses, whilst present in the cod recovery zone, regulated gear other than the regulated gear notified under the requirement in paragraph 7 of Annex V is guilty of an offence.\n(3) The competent authority for the purpose of the second indent of the third sub-paragraph of paragraph 7 of Annex V is the Scottish Ministers.\n(4) A relevant fishing boat which is present in the cod recovery zone shall only carry on board gear falling within one of the groupings of fishing gears specified in paragraph 4 of Annex V.\n(5) A person in charge of a relevant fishing boat which contravenes the prohibition in paragraph (4) is guilty of an offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2004/81",
      "affecting_title": "The Sea Fishing (Restriction on Days at Sea) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2004"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/44/article/6",
    "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."
}