Article 2 Prohibition of keeping of crayfish

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 2(1) words inserted by Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture 2011 reg. 28(2)
art. 2(3) inserted by Alien and Locally Absent Species in Aquaculture 2011 reg. 28(3)
art. 2(1) words omitted by Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) 2019 Sch. 4 para. 2(3)(a)
art. 2(2) omitted by Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) 2019 Sch. 4 para. 2(3)(b)

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, no person shall keep any live crayfish, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Minister.

(2)

The prohibition specified in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to crayfish of the species Pacifastacus leniusculus (commonly known as the signal crayfish) kept within those parts of England and Wales which are within the postcode areas set out in column 1 (and described in column 2), as read with column 3, of the Schedule to this Order.