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Article 2 InterpretationI1

England and Wales

In this Order—

  • “fixed engine” (“offer gosod”) includes—

    1. (a)

      a stake net, bag net, putt or putcher;

    2. (b)

      any fixed implement or engine for taking or facilitating the taking of fish;

    3. (c)

      any net secured by anchors and any net or other implement for taking fish fixed to the soil, or made stationary in any other way; and

    4. (d)

      any net placed or suspended in any inland waters or tidal waters unattended by the owner or a person duly authorised by the owner to use it for taking sea fish, and any engine, device, machine or contrivance, whether floating or otherwise, for placing or suspending such a net or maintaining it in working order or making it stationary;

  • “inland waters” (“dyfroedd mewndirol.”) has the meaning given in section 221(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991f1;

  • “migratory trout” (“brithyll mudo”) means trout which migrate to and from the sea;

  • “salmon” (“eog”) includes any fish of the salmon species;

  • “sea fish” (“pysgod môr.”) means fish of any kind found in the sea, including shellfish, salmon and migratory trout;

  • “the specified area” (“yr ardal benodedig”) means any inland waters or tidal waters in Wales;

  • “tidal waters” (“dyfroedd llanw”) means any part of the sea or any part of a river within the ebb and flow of the tide at ordinary spring tides; and

  • “Wales” (“Cymru”) has the meaning given in section 158 of the Government of Wales Act 2006f2.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Art. 2 in force at 1.1.2011, see art. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1

1991 c. 57.

f2

2006 c. 32.