{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-angling-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-angling-amendment-regulations-2010/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/154",
  "legislation_title": "The Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Angling) (Amendment) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foyle-area-and-carlingford-area-angling-amendment-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Angling) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "(1) The Foyle Area and Carlingford Area (Angling) Regulations 2001 are amended in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation) insert at the appropriate place—\n““the defined mouth”, in relation to the River Foyle, means the mouth of that river as defined by instrument dated 8th February 1864 made under section 17 of the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act 1863;”.\n(3) In regulation 4 (prohibitions and restrictions)—\n(a) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) A person shall not retain any salmon, sea trout or brown trout taken by rod and line from the waters of the River Finn or River Foyle described in Schedule 2A.”;\n(b) after paragraph (4) add—\n“(5) A person shall not use or attempt to use any hook other than a single barbless hook, the gape of which does not exceed 7mm while angling for salmon, sea trout or brown trout in the waters of the River Finn or River Foyle described in Schedule 2A.”.\n(4) In regulation 5 (restrictions on bait) after paragraph (4) add—\n“(5) A person shall not use or attempt to use any earthworm as a bait while angling for salmon, sea trout or brown trout in the waters of the River Finn or River Foyle described in Schedule 2A.”.\n(5) In regulation 7 (restrictions on number and size) in paragraph (2) after “or (e)” insert “or any salmon, sea-trout or brown trout from the waters of the River Finn or River Foyle described in Schedule 2A”;\n(6) After Schedule 2 (waters in which angling is prohibited) insert the Schedule set out in the Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2001 No. 158 as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 75, S.R. 2007 No. 274, S.R. 2008 No. 33 and S.R. 2009 No.381"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "26 & 27 Vict., c. 114. Section 17 of the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act 1863 was repealed by section 211 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c.17 (N.I.)), but by virtue of section 13(4) of Foyle Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1952, any instrument made under section 17 of the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act 1863 which was in force immediately before the date appointed by order made under section 10 of the Foyle Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) and applied to the part of the Foyle Area which is in Northern Ireland continued in force and is deemed to be made under section 13 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/154/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:20.818090+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."
}