# The Scotland Act 1998 (River Tweed) Order 2006, Article 33: Fishing in waters where fishing rights owned by one person


(1) Any person who without legal right, or without permission from a person having such right, fishes in a proper stank or loch shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale.
(2) For the purposes of this article–
“proper stank or loch” means a stank or loch the fishing rights in which are owned by one person; and
“stank” means a reservoir or pond with neither inlet nor outlet sufficient to allow access or egress by fish.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110705548/article/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scotland-act-1998-river-tweed-order-2006/article-33
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