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Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975

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5 Prohibition of use of explosives, poisons or electrical devices and of destruction of dams etc.E+W

(1)Subject to [F1 subsections (2) and (2A) ] below, no person shall use in or near any waters (including waters adjoining the coast of England and Wales [F2to a distance of six nautical miles measured from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured] any explosive substance, any poison or other noxious substance, or any electrical device, with intent thereby to take or destroy fish.

(2)Subsection (1) above shall not apply to the use by a person of any substance or device—

(a)for a scientific purpose, or for the purpose of protecting, improving or replacing stocks of fish; and

(b)with the permission in writing of the water authority[F3 , for which the Agency may charge a fee ] F4 . . .;

F5. . .

[F6(2A)Subsection (1) above shall not apply to anything done pursuant to an authorisation granted by the Agency under section 27A below.]

(3)No person shall, without lawful excuse, destroy or damage any dam, flood-gate or sluice with intent thereby to take or destroy fish.

(4)A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (3) above or who, for the purpose of contravening subsection (1) above, has in his possession any explosive or noxious substance or any electrical device, shall be guilty of an offence.

(5)The use of any substance in any waters for a purpose falling within paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above, and with the permission mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection, shall not constitute an offence under—

(a)section 4 above;

(b)any byelaws made under paragraph 31 of Schedule 3 below;

[F7(c)regulation 38(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010;]

(d)section 22(1)(a) of the M1Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951.

F8(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F5Words in s. 5(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 105, 120(3), Sch. 15 para. 7, Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3

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