Part V Administration and Enforcement
Powers of water bailiffs etc.
31 Powers of search etc.
C11
Any F5water bailiff appointed by the appropriate agency and any person appointed by the Minister—
a
may examine any dam, fishing weir, fishing mill dam, fixed engine or obstruction, or any artificial watercourse, and for that purpose enter on any land;
C2b
may examine any instrument or bait which he has reasonable cause to suspect of having been or being used or likely to be used in taking fish F1... or any container which he has reasonable cause to suspect of having been or being used or likely to be used for holding any such instrument, bait or fish;
C2c
may stop and search any boat or other vessel used in F6fishing in the appropriate agency’s area or any vessel or vehicle which he has reasonable cause to suspect of containing—
i
fish F3...;
ii
any such instrument, bait or container as aforesaid;
d
may seize any fishF4 (or a sample of any fish) and any instrument, vessel, vehicle or other thing liable to be forfeited in pursuance of this Act.
F2e
may disable or destroy any dam, fishing weir, fishing mill dam or fixed engine which he has reasonable cause to suspect of having operated or been used, or of being likely to be used, in contravention of this Act.
C32
If any person refuses to allow a water bailiff or a person appointed by the Minister to make any entry, search or examination which he is by this section authorised to make, or to seize anything which he is so authorised to seize, or resists or obstructs a water bailiff or person so appointed in any such entry, search, examination or seizure, he shall be guilty of an offence.