{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/15",
  "legislation_title": "Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Size limit for selling trout",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, any person who purchases, sells, exposes for sale, consigns for sale, exports or consigns for export—\n(a) trout under 20 centimetres in length; or\n(b) any trout at any time between 1st September and 31st March both inclusive,\nshall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to live trout sold or disposed of for the purpose of stocking any river, loch or water, or of artificial propagation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 in force at 1.4.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/174, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/15/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:44.351409+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."
}