{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-142",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-142.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/57",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991",
  "path": "section/142",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "142",
  "heading": "Fisheries contributions.",
  "text": "(1) Each of the Ministers shall have power, on an application made to him by the appropriate agency, by order made by statutory instrument to make provision in relation to an area defined by the order—\n(a) for the imposition on the owners and occupiers of fisheries in that area of requirements to pay contributions to the appropriate agency, of such amounts as may be determined under the order, in respect of the expenses of the carrying out in relation to that area of the appropriate agency's functions with respect to fisheries;\n(b) for such contributions to be paid or recovered in such manner, and to be refundable, in such circumstances as may be specified in or determined under the order.\n(2) Subsections (2) to (6)of section 115 above shall have effect in relation to the power conferred by subsection (1) above as they have effect in relation to the power conferred by subsection (1) of that section.\n(3) The reference in this section to the owners and occupiers of fisheries shall have the same meaning as any such reference in the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in ss. 120-143 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 276 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 142(2) substituted (21.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, s. 116, Sch. 21 para. 2(3) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1995/1983, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 142 excluded (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1746, arts. 1(1), 4(1); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/142",
    "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."
}