{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/schedule-27/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/schedule-27/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/57",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/27/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The appropriate agency may, at any time before an emergency fisheries byelaw expires, apply to the appropriate national authority for it to be extended.\n(2) On such an application, the appropriate national authority may extend the byelaw at any time before its expiry, provided the authority is satisfied that—\n(a) the byelaw is still needed to prevent or limit the harm referred to in paragraph 1(2)(a) above, and\n(b) the need for the extension could not reasonably have been avoided by the appropriate agency.\n(3) A byelaw may be extended under sub-paragraph (2) above for such period not exceeding six months as the appropriate national authority may specify.\n(4) A byelaw may not be extended under sub-paragraph (2) above on more than one occasion.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 27 inserted (12.1.2010) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), ss. 225(2), 324(3); S.I. 2009/3345, art. 2, Sch. para. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 27 paras. 7-9 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 315(d) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/schedule/27/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:46.190861+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."
}