Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984

1 General power to prohibit sea fishing in specified areas.

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

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

3 Use of mobile gear near fixed salmon nets.

4AContravention of orders under section 1: presumption

5 Powers of sea-fishery officers.

6 Provisions ancillary to section 5.

6APower to enter land

7 Powers of water bailiffs, etc.

7APowers of water bailiffs in the Tweed district etc.

8 Offences by bodies corporate and recovery of fines.

9 Interpretation.

10 Consequential amendments and repeals.

10ACrown application: Scotland

11 Citation, commencement, transitional provisions and extent.

SCHEDULE 1 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29)

SCHEDULE 2 Repeals

Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984

1984 c. 26

An Act to make fresh provision for Scotland as regards the regulation of inshore sea fishing, and for connected purposes.

[26th June 1984]

I1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Annotations:

Commencement Information

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Act not in force at Royal Assent see s. 11(2); wholly in force at 26.7.85.