{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-40.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/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "River Severn.",
  "text": "This Act applies to the dams constructed by the Severn Commissioners under the Severn Navigation Act 1842 and the Severn Navigation Act 1853 and now vested in Canal & River Trust, and to all fish passes in those dams; and it shall accordingly be Canal & River Trust’s duty, subject to the provisions of this Act and to section 23 of the Severn Navigation Act 1881 (by virtue of which they have power to stop up the passes with the agreement of the appropriate agency) to maintain those passes in an efficient state.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (2.7.2012) by The British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1659), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 4(2)(a) (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (2.7.2012) by The British Waterways Board (Transfer of Functions) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1659), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 4(2)(b) (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 148 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1842 c. xxiv (Sess. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1853 c. xlvii."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1881 c. ccv."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/51/section/40",
    "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."
}