{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-carcass-tagging-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-carcass-tagging-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/116",
  "legislation_title": "The Salmon Carcass Tagging (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-carcass-tagging-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Records",
  "text": "(1) Any person who, by virtue of regulation 3(1), is required to tag the carcass of a salmon, must keep, for each week in which salmon is taken, a record of—\n(a) the total number of the carcasses of salmon which have been tagged with a salmon tag;\n(b) the unique reference number of any salmon tags affixed to the carcasses of salmon;\n(c) the salmon fishery within which the salmon was taken;\n(d) the unique reference number of any damaged salmon tags which cannot be affixed in accordance with regulation 4;\n(e) any salmon tags which have been lost.\n(2) A record kept under paragraph (1) must be submitted to the Scottish Ministers within the period of 2 weeks from the date of the start of the annual close time for the salmon fishery district, or that part of a salmon fishery district, within which the salmon was taken.\n(3) In paragraph (1) “week” means a period of 7 days commencing on a Monday and ending on a Sunday.\n(4) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) “annual close time” means the annual close time for salmon within the meaning of section 37 of the 2003 Act; and\n(b) the dates of the annual close time for a salmon fishery district, or part of a salmon fishery district, are those dates prescribed by the Conservation of Salmon (Annual Close Time and Catch and Release) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 in respect of that district or part of a district.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2014/327 as amended by S.S.I. 2014/357."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/116/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:24:39.398180+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."
}