{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/keeping-and-introduction-of-fish-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/keeping-and-introduction-of-fish-wales-regulations-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Keeping fish",
  "text": "(1) A person who keeps in inland waters, otherwise than under and in accordance with a permit granted under regulation 6, any fish of a kind to which this regulation applies commits an offence.\n(2) This regulation applies to any fish which belongs to a taxonomic order specified in Part 1 of the Schedule and is not of a species specified in Part 2 of the Schedule.\n(3) In relation to a protected area, this regulation also applies to fish of any species which would otherwise be absent from that area.\n(4) In paragraph (3) a “protected area” (“ardal warchodedig”) is—\n(i) a site of special scientific interest, as defined by section 52(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;\n(ii) a European site or European marine site as defined by regulation 8 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017;\n(iii) a wetland designated under paragraph 1 of article 2 of the Ramsar Convention, as defined by section 37A(4) and (5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(4)(ii) substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 43(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 20.1.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c.69. Relevant amendments to section 52(1) were made by section 75(1) of, and paragraphs 5(1) and, (2) of Schedule 9 to, the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 37A was inserted by section 77 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2014/3303/regulation/5",
    "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."
}