{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tweed-fisheries-amendment-act-1859/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tweed-fisheries-amendment-act-1859/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukla/Vict/22-23/70",
  "legislation_title": "Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act 1859",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tweed-fisheries-amendment-act-1859",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend “TheTweedFisheries Act 1857,” and to alter the Annual Close Times in the River Tweed.\n[1stAugust1859]\nWhereas an Act was passed in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled The Tweed Fisheries Act 1857: And whereas it is expedient and would be for the Advantage of the Salmon Fisheries in the said River that the Annual Close Times defined by the said Act should be altered, and that the Limits of the Mouth or Entrance of the said River should be extended, and that further Provision should be made for the Regulation of the Fisheries in the said River and within the said extended Limits; but these Objects cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1857 c. cxlviii."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act amended by Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1868 (c. 123), s. 41, Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951 (c. 26), s. 10 and Tweed Fisheries Act 1969 (c. xxiv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: definition of \"the River Tweed\" applied (1.12.1991) by Water Resources Act 1991 (c. 57, SIF 130), ss. 2(7), 225(3) (with ss. 179, 222(3), 225(4), Sch. 22 para. 1, Sch. 23 para. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 5.10.1859 see s. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/22-23/70/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:22:28.994231+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."
}