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In section 15 of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967, after subsection (3) (under which certain powers listed in section 8 of the [1968 c. 77.] Sea Fisheries Act 1968 may be conferred by order on British sea-fishery officers for the enforcement of the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967) there shall be inserted—
“(3A)The powers which may be conferred on any such officer by an order under this section shall include power to—
(a)require any person on board the boat to produce—
(i)any automatic recording equipment or transmitting equipment used in accordance with a condition included in a licence by virtue of section 4(6) or 4A(6) of this Act, or
(ii)any record produced by means of such equipment, or partly by those and partly by other means;
(b)search the boat for any such equipment or record, and require any person on board the boat to do anything which appears to the officer to be necessary to facilitate the search;
(c)examine and take copies of any such record;
(d)seize and detain any such equipment or record for the purpose of enabling that equipment or record, or any record which may be produced by means of that equipment, to be used as evidence in proceedings for any offence.
(3B)An order under this section shall not permit anything which is required to be carried on board the boat by a condition included in a licence by virtue of section 4(6) or 4A(6) of this Act to be seized and detained except while the boat is detained in a port.”
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