{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/skye-salmon-fishery-district-designation-order-1991/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/skye-salmon-fishery-district-designation-order-1991/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2271",
  "legislation_title": "The Skye Salmon Fishery District Designation Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/skye-salmon-fishery-district-designation-order-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order creates a new salmon fishery district to be known as the Skye Salmon Fishery District and comprises the salmon fishery districts of Snizort and Sligachan which included the Islands of Rona, Raasay, Scalpay, and Soay; part of Loch Long Salmon Fishery District and the Islands of Canna, Rhum, Eigg and Muck. The salmon fishery districts of Snizort and Sligachan are abolished.\nArticle 3 provides for the retention of Regulations relating to matters specified in section 6(6) of the Salmon Fishery (Scotland) Act 1862 (for example due observance of the weekly close time and the meshes of nets) which applied in the superseded districts. These Regulations will apply in the new salmon fishery district.\nArticle 4 provides that the annual close time for the new district is from 27th August to 10th February in each year and that the period in each year within that close time when rod and line fishing only is permitted is 27th August to 15th October.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2271/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:36:57.315151+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."
}