{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/51",
  "legislation_title": "Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Power to enter lands.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsections (1A) and (2) below,—\n(a) any water bailiff or other officer of the appropriate agency, under a special order in writing from that agency, and\n(b) any person appointed by the Minister, under an order in writing from him,\nmay at all reasonable times, for the purpose of preventing any offence against this Act, enter, remain upon and traverse any lands adjoining or near to waters within a water authority areaany waters other than—\n(i) a dwelling-house or the curtilage of a dwelling-house, ...\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1A) The appropriate agency may make an order under subsection (1)(a) for the purpose of preventing any offence being committed in its area.\n(2) An order under subsection (1) above shall not remain in force for more than 12 months.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 144(2)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 144(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words “any waters” substituted for “waters within a water authority area” (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), s. 141, Sch. 17 para. 7(1)(8) (with ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), 194(9), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 32(1)(ii) repealed (12.1.2010) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), ss. 220(3), 324(3), Sch. 22 Pt. 5(B); S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. paras. 12, 27(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 32(1A) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 144(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 32 extended (30.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1746, arts. 1(1), 8(1) (with art. 2); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/51/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:37:31.022413+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."
}