{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inshore-fishing-scotland-act-1984/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inshore-fishing-scotland-act-1984/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/26",
  "legislation_title": "Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inshore-fishing-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "General power to prohibit sea fishing in specified areas.",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may, after consultation with such bodies as he considers appropriate, make orders under this section regulating fishing for sea fish in any specified . . . area within Scottish inshore waters.\n(2) Orders under this section may prohibit, within the specified . . . area, all or any, or a combination of the following—\n(a) all fishing for sea fish;\n(b) fishing for a specified description of sea fish;\n(c) fishing by a specified method;\n(d) fishing from a specified description of fishing boat;\n(dd) fishing from or by means of any vehicle or any vehicle of a specified description;\n(ddd) fishing by means of a specified description of equipment\nand they may—\n(e) specify the period during which any prohibition is to apply;\n(f) make exceptions to any prohibition contained in the order.\n(3) Where an order under subsection (2)(b) (c) or (ddd) above applies within a specified . . . area for the time being, and, as an incident of lawful fishing operations, fish of a description for which fishing is prohibited are caught, or fish are caught by a method which is prohibited in respect of fish of that description, such fish shall, unless the order provides otherwise, be returned to Scottish inshore waters forthwith.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1) substituted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, art. 4 Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 72(2); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1)(2)(3) omitted (8.8.1994) by virtue of 1994 c. 27, s. 1(1)(2)(3)(a)(4)(b); S.I. 1994/2124, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 1(2)(dd)(ddd) inserted (8.8.1994) by 1994 c. 27, s. 1(3)(b); S.I. 1994/2124, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(3) substituted (8.8.1994) by 1994 c. 27, s. 1(4)(a)(c); S.I. 1994/2124, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/26/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:35.307083+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."
}