SCHEDULE 1Designation orders, estuary limits orders, annual close time orders and regulations under sections 33 and 38

Designation orders

1The Scottish Ministers may make a designation order only on an application to them by—

(a)a district salmon fishery board for a district which would be affected by the proposed order;

(b)where there is no such board, two proprietors of salmon fisheries in the area which would be affected by the proposed order; or

(c)any number of or combination of such boards or such proprietors in the area which would be affected by the proposed order,

but the Scottish Ministers may act under this schedule notwithstanding that the applicants do not represent the whole area which would be affected by the proposed order.