{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-88.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/17",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/88",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": "Taking salmon or trout unlawfully killed or found dead.",
  "text": "(1) A person who by any means removes or causes to be removed from any waters—\n(a) any salmon or trout which has been injured or killed otherwise than by lawful means; or\n(b) any salmon or trout which has been found dead, from any cause whatever, by that person;\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any of the following persons—\n(a) any person acting under the authority of the Ministry; or\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) any owner of a fishery in those waters; or\n(d) any agent of the owner of a fishery in those waters; or\n(e) any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; or\n(f) [ any person acting under the authority of a district council]. or\n(g) any private water bailiff appointed to protect those waters.\n(3) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section in respect of any fish it shall be a good defence to prove that he removed the fish from any waters, or caused it to be so removed, solely for the purpose of delivering it to a person designated in any of paragraphs ( a) to ( f) of subsection (2), and that he did so deliver it before being required to do so by any such person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 88(2)(b) repealed (1.6.2009) by Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 3), ss. 1(3)(b), 6, 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(23), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2009/172, art. 2(b)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SRO (NI) 1973/343"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1991 NI 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/88",
    "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."
}