The Registration of Fish Buyers and Sellers and Designation of Fish Auction Sites (Wales) Regulations 2006 No. 1495 (W. 145)

Purchase of first sale fish landed from a licensed fishing vessel

11.—(1) Any person who buys first sale fish which has been landed otherwise than by a licensed fishing vessel is guilty of an offence.

(2) In any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (1), it is a defence for a person to show that-

(a) the person did not know; and

(b) it was reasonable for that person not to suspect,

that the fish had not been landed by a licensed fishing vessel.