{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-40A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-act-1975/section-40A.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/40A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40A",
  "heading": "Power to specify fish",
  "text": "The appropriate national authority may by order specify fish of any description for the purposes of any or all of the following—\n(a) section 1, 2, 25 or 27A above;\n(b) section 32 of the Salmon Act 1986;\n(c) paragraph 6 of Schedule 25 to the Water Resources Act 1991;\n(d) section 6(6) of the Environment Act 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 40A inserted (12.11.2009 for specified purposes, 12.1.2010 in so far as not already in force) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), ss. 221(1), 324(1)(c), 324(1)(d); S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/51/section/40A",
    "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."
}