{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tweed-fisheries-act-1969/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tweed-fisheries-act-1969/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/1969/24",
  "legislation_title": "Tweed Fisheries Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tweed-fisheries-act-1969",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Application of Acts to freshwater fish.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of the Act of 1857 and the Act of 1859, except the following sections of those Acts, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, with any necessary modifications extend and apply to freshwater fish in like manner as they apply to salmon:—\nAct of 1857—\nSection XLV\n(Nets not to be used in annual close time);\nSection XLVIII\n(Boats and nets not removed may be seized without warrant);\nSection XLIX\n(Nets left in the river during close times may be seized);\nSection LI\n(Magistrates empowered to issue search warrants);\nSection LII\n(Ferry boats and boats of proprietors and occupiers of land not to be used in fishing);\nSection LIV\n(Commissioners to appoint distinguishing marks for boats);\nSection LVIII\n(Cairns to be removed);\nSection LXII\n(As to the working of wear shot nets);\nSection LXX\n(Penalty on persons taking foul or unseasonable fish);\nSection LXXII\n(Foul or unseasonable fish to be put back into river);\nSection LXXIV\n(To prevent destruction of spawn or fry);\nSection LXXVII\n(Management of joint fisheries);\nSection LXXVIII\n(Arbitration in case of difference);\nSection LXXIX\n(Rates to be levied);\nSection LXXX\n(Recovery of rates);\nSchedule A.\nAct of 1859—\nSection V\n(Assessment and regulation of fisheries within the limits of the mouth or entrance as extended);\nSection VI\n(Annual Close Times);\nSection VIII\n(Penalty for fishing in Annual or Weekly Close Times);\nSection IX\n(Provisions of recited Act applicable to Annual and Weekly Close Times);\nSection X\n(Penalty for having or selling fish caught in Annual Close Times);\nSection XI\n(Removal of Boats and Nets used in fishing);\nSection XII\n(Regulating stake and bag nets);\nSection XIII\n(Regulating size of meshes of nets);\nSection XVII\n(Nothing in section 72 of recited Act to require the putting back into the river of foul, etc., fish taken by rod and line).\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, section XVIII (Power to Superintendent of water bailiffs to prosecute for offences, etc.) of the Act of 1859 shall not extend and apply to complaints and proceedings in Scotland in relation to freshwater fish.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/1969/24/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:57:36.114793+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."
}