{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-and-freshwater-fisheries-consolidation-scotland-act-2003/section-3.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/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Use of landing nets",
  "text": "Nothing in section 1 or 2 of this Act shall be construed as prohibiting the use of a knotless non-metallic landing net (that is, a net the mesh of which is knotless and made of non-metallic material) as auxiliary to the taking of fish by rod and line.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 substituted (1.8.2007) by Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 12), ss. 19(1)(a), 45(2) (with s. 39); S.S.I. 2007/333, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3 inserted (1.8.2007) by Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 12), ss. 19(1)(b), 45(2) (with s. 39); S.S.I. 2007/333, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 3 substituted (1.8.2007) by Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 12), ss. 19(2), 45(2) (with s. 39); S.S.I. 2007/333, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}