{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-fisheries-scotland-act-1868/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-fisheries-scotland-act-1868/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/123",
  "legislation_title": "Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/salmon-fisheries-scotland-act-1868",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Penalties for taking unclean salmon.",
  "text": "Every person who shall wilfully take, fish for, or attempt to take, or aid or assist in taking, fishing for, or attempting to take, any unclean or unseasonable salmon, or who shall buy, sell, or expose for sale, or have in his possession, any unclean or unseasonable salmon, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds in respect of each such fish taken, sold, or exposed for sale, or in his possession, and shall forfeit every such fish; but this section shall not apply to any person who takes such fish accidentally, and forthwith returns the same to the water with the least possible injury, . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Salmon Act 1986 (c. 62, SIF 52:2), s. 41, Sch. 4 para. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 20 excluded by Salmon Act 1986 (c. 62, SIF 52:2), ss. 28(2)(b)(iii), 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 20 amended by Freshwater and Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1976 (c. 22), ss. 6, 7, Sch. 2, Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 5(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 20 amended by Fisheries Act 1981 (c. 29, SIF 52:1), s. 33(5), Sch. 4 Pt. II para. 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/123/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:09.680537+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."
}