# Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975, Section 15: Power of appropriate agency to use screens etc. to limit movements of salmon and trout.

Extent: E+W

(1) The appropriate agency—
(a) may cause a screen or screens of such form and dimensions as it may determine to be placed and maintained, at the expense of the appropriate agency, at a suitable place in any watercourse, mill race, cut, leat, conduit or other channel for conveying water for any purpose from any waters frequented by salmon or migratory trout; and
(b) may cause any watercourse, mill race, cut, leat, conduit or other channel in which a screen is placed under this section to be widened or deepened at the expense of the appropriate agency so far as may be necessary to compensate for the diminution of any flow of water caused by the placing of the screen, or shall take some other means to prevent the flow of water being prejudicially diminished or otherwise injured.
(2) If any person—
(a) injures any such screen; or
(b) removed any such screen or part of any such screen, except during any period of the year during which under a byelaw screens need not be maintained; or
(c) opens any such screen improperly; or
(d) permits any such screen to be injured, or removed, except as aforesaid, or improperly opened;
he shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) The appropriate agency may adopt such means as in its oppinion are necessary for preventing the ingress of salmon or trout into waters in which they or their spawning beds or ova are, from the nature of the channel or other causes, liable to be destroyed.
(4) Nothing in this section shall—
(a) affect the liability under this Act of any person to place and maintain a screen; or
(b) authorise a screen to be so placed or maintained during any period of the year during which under a byelaw screens need not be maintained; or
(c) authorise any screen to be placed or maintained so as to obstruct any conduit or channel used for navigation or in any way interfere with the effective working of any mill;
and nothing in subsection (3) above shall authorise the appropriate agency prejudicially to interfere with water rights used or enjoyed for the purposes of manufacturing or for milling purposes or for drainage or navigation.
(5) In this section “ open ”, in relation to a screen which consists of apparatus, includes the doing of anything which interrupts, or otherwise interferes with, the operation of the apparatus.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/51/section/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-15
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