{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/17",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "General power for stocking of waters.",
  "text": "Where the Ministry is satisfied—\n(a) that for the purpose of developing or improving the fishery of any waters it is expedient to introduce into those or any other waters fish of any kind; and\n(b) that the introducing of fish of that kind will not interfere with the reasonable and legitimate interests of any other person,\nthe Ministry may acquire, and may do such things as are necessary to establish in any such waters, any fish of that kind, or any eggs or young thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/8",
    "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."
}