{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/17",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Use of salmon nets near mouths of rivers.",
  "text": "(1) If any person (other than the owner of a several fishery within the limits thereof) shoots, draws or uses any net for taking salmon—\n(a) at the mouth of any river; or\n(b) within 805 metres in any direction from the mouth of any river,\nhe shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any person (other than the owner of a several fishery in the whole of a river or its tributaries, within the limits of that several fishery)—\n(a) who shoots, draws or stretches a net across the mouth or across any other part of a river; and\n(b) who fails to leave open a channel which is—\n(i) at least one-quarter of the width of the mouth of the river or, as the case may be, of that other part of the river, or 18 metres, whichever is the less, and\n(ii) of sufficient depth and width to facilitate the passage of salmon in that river;\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) Where an order under section 16 defines the mouth of a tributary river, references in this section to the mouth of a river shall be construed as including references to the mouth of that tributary river.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 1983/100"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1991 NI 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:15.701581+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."
}