Sea Fishing (Enforcement of Community Quota and Third Country Fishing Measures) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Admissibility in evidence of logbooks and other documents

12.—(1) Any –

(a)logbook kept under Article 6, 17.2 or 28c;

(b)declaration submitted under Article 8.1, 12, 17.2 or 28f;

(c)effort report completed under Articles 19b and 19c;

(d)document drawn up under Article 9 or 13;

(e)document containing required information received by a fisheries monitoring centre established under Article 3.7,

of Council Regulation 2847/93 shall, in any proceedings for a relevant offence, be evidence of the matters stated therein.

(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 Council Regulation 2847/93.