{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/annual-close-time-rivers-irvine-and-garnock-salmon-fishery-district-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/annual-close-time-rivers-irvine-and-garnock-salmon-fishery-district-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1854",
  "legislation_title": "The Annual Close Time (Rivers Irvine and Garnock Salmon Fishery District) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/annual-close-time-rivers-irvine-and-garnock-salmon-fishery-district-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nIn relation to the annual close time of the Rivers Irvine and Garnock salmon fishery district (10th September to 24th February) this Order prescribes the period from 10th September to 15th November as the period during which fishing for salmon by rod and line is permitted in a specified part of the district. This part comprises the catchment area and estuary of the River Irvine and the adjacent area of sea between Irvine Bar in the north and the southern boundary of the salmon fishery district, in the south.\nFor the remaining part of the district the period during which such rod and line fishing is permitted in the annual close time continues to be from 10th September to 31st October.\nBy virtue of section 1(1) of the Salmon Act 1986 the area of the salmon fishery district extends seaward for a distance of 3 miles from mean low water springs of the coastal limits of the district and landward to include the catchment area of each river flowing directly or indirectly into the sea within those coastal limits.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1854/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:07:09.376728+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}