Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. General power to prohibit sea fishing in specified areas.

3. 2. Power to prohibit the carriage of specified types of net.

4. 2A. Powers to restrict fishing, or to prohibit the carriage of specified types of net, for marine environmental purposes.

5. 3. Use of mobile gear near fixed salmon nets.

6. 4. Offences.

7. 4A. Contravention of orders under section 1: presumption

8. 5. Powers of sea-fishery officers.

9. 6. Provisions ancillary to section 5.

10. 6A. Power to enter land

11. 7. Powers of water bailiffs, etc.

12. 7A. Powers of water bailiffs in the Tweed district etc.

13. 8. Offences by bodies corporate and recovery of fines.

14. 9. Interpretation.

15. 10. Consequential amendments and repeals.

16. 10A. Crown application: Scotland

17. 11. Citation, commencement, transitional provisions and extent.

18. SCHEDULES

    1. SCHEDULE 1

       MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

       1. Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 29)

          1. In section 32— (a) for the words from “Fishery Board”...

       2. . . .

       3. Illegal Trawling (Scotland) Act 1934 (c. 18)

          1. In section 4(1) for the words “section six of the...

       4. Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1967 (c. 84)

       5. Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 13)

       6. Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29)

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Repeals