{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009/section-158",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009/section-158.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/23",
  "legislation_title": "Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-and-coastal-access-act-2009",
  "path": "section/158",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "158",
  "heading": "Byelaws: supplementary provision",
  "text": "(1) The power to make byelaws under section 155 includes power to make different provision for different cases or different circumstances, including (in particular)—\n(a) different parts of an IFC district;\n(b) different times of the year;\n(c) different descriptions of sea fisheries resources.\n(2) The power to make byelaws under section 155 also includes—\n(a) power to provide for exceptions or conditions;\n(b) power to provide for a byelaw to cease to have effect after a specified period.\n(3) Subject to subsection (5), the provision that may be made by a byelaw under section 155 includes provision that prohibits, restricts or otherwise interferes with the exercise of a right to which subsection (4) applies.\n(4) This subsection applies to—\n(a) any right of several fishery;\n(b) any right on, to or over any portion of the seashore that is enjoyed by a person under a local or special Act, a Royal charter, letters patent, or by prescription or immemorial usage.\n(5) An IFC authority may make a byelaw that prohibits, or significantly restricts or interferes with, the exercise of a right to which subsection (4) applies only if the person who enjoys the right consents.\n(6) Subsection (5) does not apply in relation to the exercise of such a right in relation to any of the following sites—\n(a) a site of special scientific interest, within the meaning of Part 2 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (c. 69);\n(b) a national nature reserve declared in accordance with section 35 of that Act;\n(c) a Ramsar site, within the meaning of section 37A of that Act;\n(d) a European marine site, within the meaning of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012) (see regulation 8) ;\n(e) a marine conservation zone designated by an order under section 116.\n(7) In this section “specified” means specified in the byelaw.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 158(6)(d) substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 158 in force at 1.4.2011 by S.I. 2011/556, art. 2(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/23/section/158",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:47.916077+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."
}