{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/keeping-and-introduction-of-fish-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2014/3303",
  "legislation_title": "The Keeping and Introduction of Fish (Wales) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/keeping-and-introduction-of-fish-wales-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Transitional",
  "text": "A licence under section 1 of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980 authorising a person to keep or release live fish, or the live eggs of fish, which is in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, is to be taken to be a permit under these Regulations authorising the keeping of fish or the introduction of fish into inland waters.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 17 in force at 20.1.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c.27. Subsection (1) was amended by regulation 45 of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to, the Aquatic Animal Health (England and Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/463); subsection (2) was amended by section 105(1) of, and paragraph 62 of Schedule 11 to, the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c. 16); section 132 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 9 to, the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43); and article 4(1) of, and paragraph 158 of Schedule 2 to, Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755) (W.90); subsection 3 was amended by section 37(2) of the Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/3303/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:36:06.443482+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."
}