The Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023

Made: 6th December 2023

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 8th December 2023

Coming into force: 1st April 2024

In accordance with paragraphs 10, 11 and 14(1) of schedule 1 of that Act, they have consulted such persons as they considered appropriate, directed that notice be given of the general effect of these Regulations and considered representations and objections made.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1 April 2024.

Amendment of the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Regulations 2016

2

For schedule 2 (inland waters: prohibition on retaining salmon) of the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Regulations 2016[^f00002], substitute the schedule set out in the schedule of these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — SUBSTITUTION OF SCHEDULE 2 OF THE CONSERVATION OF SALMON (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2016

Signed

MAIRI GOUGEON — A member of the Scottish Government — 6th December 2023

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (“the principal Regulations”), which make provision for regulating the killing of salmon in specified areas.

Regulation 2 substitutes schedule 2 (inland waters: prohibition on retaining salmon) of the principal Regulations, which describes the areas of inland waters where there is a prohibition on the retention of any salmon caught.

Regulation 2 makes substantive changes to schedule 2 of the principal Regulations, as last amended by the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022, at the following paragraphs: 25, 47, 55, 65, 66, 93 and 106.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies of it can be obtained from the Scottish Government, Marine Directorate, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ and online at www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2003 asp 15. Section 38 was amended by section 29 of the Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013 (asp 7).

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2016/115, amended by S.S.I. 2016/392, S.S.I. 2018/37, S.S.I. 2019/56, S.S.I. 2019/113, S.S.I. 2019/426, S.S.I. 2020/416, S.S.I. 2021/466 and S.S.I. 2022/363.