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17.—(1) A licence under section 1 of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980(1) authorising a person to keep or release live fish, or the live eggs of fish, which is in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, is to be taken to be a permit under these Regulations authorising the keeping of fish or the introduction of fish into inland waters.
(2) This regulation applies in relation to live fish, and live eggs of fish, in England only.
1980 c. 27. Section 1 was amended by regulation 45 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2009/463; section 132 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 9 to, the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43); section 105(1) of, and paragraph 62 of Schedule 11 to, the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16); article 4(1) of, and paragraph 158 of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2013/755; and section 37(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29).
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