Section 29 Apprehension of offenders.C1

Scotland

It shall be lawful for any person, without any warrant or other authority than this Act, brevi manu to seize and detain any person who shall be found committing any offence contained in the first six sub-divisions of the fifteenth section, or in the F1... eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second sections of this Act, and to carry such person before any F2sheriff principal or justice of the peace or other magistrate F3..., who shall forthwith examine and discharge or commit such person until caution de judicio sisti be found, as the case may require.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word repealed by Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 (c. 26), Sch. 2
F2: Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4
F3: Words in s. 29 omitted (25.1.2018) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential and Supplementary Modifications) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/452), reg. 1, sch. para. 1 (with reg. 2(2))

Modifications

C1: S. 29 amended by Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 (c. 26), s. 12(2)

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Preamble (which recites Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862 (c. 97), Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1863 (c. 50) and Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1864 (c. 118)) omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1893 (c. 14)
F2: The whole Act (except ss. 1, 11, 15, 18–24, 26, 27, 29, 31–36, 41) (with saving for s. 13) repealed by Salmon Act 1986 (c. 62, SIF 52:2), ss. 30(1), 41, Sch. 5
F3: Act repealed (except in relation to the River Tweed and the Upper Esk) (1.4.2005) by Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 15), s. 71(2), sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with s. 71(3)(4)(6)); S.S.I. 2005/174, art. 2
F4: Act repealed in relation to the Tweed District (15.11.2006) by The Scotland Act 1998 (River Tweed) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2913), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with art. 1(3))