This Order prohibits the keeping or release in Scotland of any species of fish or the live eggs of fish specified in Schedules 1 and 2 to the Order, except under authority of a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers (art. 3). Section 3 of the Act provides that any person who keeps or releases any of the species of fish specified in Schedules 1 and 2 on the date the Order comes into force without a valid licence or who contravenes the terms of a licence shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale. In addition to prohibiting the keeping or release of certain fish specified for the first time in the Order, the Order consolidates and revokes three other Orders. The species which were specified in these three Orders are now specified in Schedule 2 to the Order.
This Order prohibits the keeping or release in Scotland of any species of fish or the live eggs of fish specified in Schedules 1 and 2 to the Order, except under authority of a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers (art. 3). Section 3 of the Act provides that any person who keeps or releases any of the species of fish specified in Schedules 1 and 2 on the date the Order comes into force without a valid licence or who contravenes the terms of a licence shall be guilty of an offence and liable
Made under the by section 1(1) of the Import of Live Fish (Scotland) Act 1978.Revokes the Import of Live Fish (Coho Salmon) (Prohibition) (Scotland) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/376), the Prohibition of the Keeping or the Release of Live Fish (Pikeperch) (Scotland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1288) and the Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) (Scotland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1107).
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Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Scotland) Order 2003 (S.S.I. No. 560 of 2003).
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Type of document:
Regulation
Date of text:
2003
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