{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-england-order-2014/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-england-order-2014/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/143",
  "legislation_title": "The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (England) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-keeping-or-release-of-live-fish-specified-species-england-order-2014",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Prohibition of keeping or release of specified fish or eggs",
  "text": "(1) No person may, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State, keep or release any live freshwater fish, or the live eggs of any freshwater fish, which—\n(a) belongs to a taxonomic order specified in the first column of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule; and\n(b) is not native to England and Wales\n(2) The requirement for a licence in paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to any species of non-native fish that is specified in the third column of the table in Part 2 of the Schedule and belongs to a taxonomic order referred to in paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2(1) substituted (19.1.2014) by The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3342), arts. 1(1)(b), 2(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/143/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:28:39.931963+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."
}