The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Wales) Order 2015

Prohibition of keeping or release of specified fish or eggs

3.—(1) No person may, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Welsh Ministers, keep or release any live freshwater fish, or the live eggs of any freshwater fish, which—

(a)belongs to a taxonomic order specified in the first column of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule; and

(b)is not native to England and Wales.

(2) The requirement for a licence in paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to any species of non-native fish that is specified in the third column of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule and belongs to a taxonomic order referred to in paragraph (1).