{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-act-1986/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-act-1986/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/62",
  "legislation_title": "Salmon Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-act-1986",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Exemption from certain offences in respect of acts done for scientific etc. purposes.",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not, in respect of any act or omission relating to salmon or salmon roe or eggs, be guilty of a contravention of an enactment prohibiting or regulating that act or omission if—\n(a) the act or omission is for—\n(i) some scientific purpose;\n(ii) the purpose of protecting, improving or developing stocks of fish; or\n(iii) the purpose of conserving any creature or other living thing; and\n(b) he has obtained the previous permission in writing—\n(i) if the act or omission is one to which this sub-paragraph applies, of the district salmon fishery board for the salmon fishery district in which it takes place or of the Secretary of State; and\n(ii) in any other case, of the Secretary of State for the act or omission.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (i) of subsection (1)(b) above applies if the act or omission referred to in that sub-paragraph—\n(a) takes place in a salmon fishery district for which there is a district salmon fishery board; and\n(b) is a contravention of—\n(i) section 45 of the Tweed Fisheries Act 1857;\n(ii) section 6 of the Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act 1859;\n(iii) section 18, 19 or 20 of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868; or\n(iv) section 2 or 4(c) of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951.\n(3) A permission under subsection (1) above shall specify the act or omission permitted and the enactment to which the permission relates.\n(4) In this section—\n(a) references to a salmon fishery district and to a district salmon fishery board include respectively references to the River Tweed and to the River Tweed Council;\n(b) “enactment” includes any instrument made after the passing of this Act under any enactment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 5-30 repealed in part (1.4.2005) by Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 15), s. 71(2), sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with s. 71(3)(4)(6)); S.S.I. 2005/174, art. 2 and Act repealed in part (except s. 31) (15.11.2006) by Scotland Act 1998 (River Tweed) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2913), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1857 c. cxlviii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1859 c. lxx."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1868 c. 123."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1951 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 28 modified (30.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1746, arts. 1(1), 11(4)(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/62/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:55.047760+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}