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Fisheries Act 1981
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- 1981 c. 29
- SCHEDULE 4
- Part II
- Offences relating to freshwater fish and salmon
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Offences relating to freshwater fish and salmonE+W+S
18Any offence under section XI of the M1Solway Act 1804 (possessing, selling or offering or exposing to sale certain fish out of season, and certain fish at any time).E+W+S
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19Any offence under section LXXIV of the M2Tweed Fisheries Act 1857 of wilfully selling, purchasing or possessing smolt, fry, or young brood or spawn.E+W+S
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M21857 c. cxlviii.
20Any offence under section X of the M3Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act 1859 (possession during close season of fish taken or caught in river, and selling or offering for sale or exchange fish caught between 15th September and 14th February).E+W+S
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21Any offence under section 3 of the M4Salmon Acts Amendment Act 1863 (exporting or entering for export unclean or unseasonable salmon and salmon caught at a time when their sale is prohibited).E+W+S
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22Any offence under section 20 of the M5Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868 of buying, selling, exposing for sale or having in possession unclean or unseasonable salmon.E+W+S
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23Any offence under section 21 of that Act (buying, selling, exposing for sale or having in possession salmon taken in close season).E+W+S
24Any offence under section 1 of the M6Freshwater Fish (Scotland) Act 1902 of having possession of trout in close season.E+W+S
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25Any offence under section 2 of the M7Trout (Scotland) Act 1933 (purchase, sale, exposing or consigning for sale, export or consigning for export trout under 8*N or between 1st September and 31st March).E+W+S
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26An offence under section 2(2)(b) of the M8Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975 (buying, selling, exposure for sale or possession of unclean or immature fish or parts of such fish).E+W+S
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27Any offence under section 22(1) of that Act (buying, selling, exposure for sale or possession for sale of fish at prohibited times of year).E+W+S
28Any offence under subsection (3) of section 23 of that Act of entering for export or exporting fish contrary to subsection (1) of that section (unclean fish and fish caught at a time when their sale is prohibited).E+W+S
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