Law

The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014

United Kingdom · regulation

Ask the law about thisMore laws of United KingdomFor machines: Markdown

Open at the publisher →

In force since 2015-01-19, as the publisher states.

Copy read on 2026-11-10. The page it was read from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

sha256 21180aa9c368aa243d3e86ea3b377cb754ebe2c72ffd556eb636e0e64cadd163

Contents: 4 provisions
  1. Title and introductory text
  2. 1 Title and commencement
  3. 2 Amendment
  4. SCHEDULE

Proposed changes to this act

No one has proposed a change to this act yet.

How this law is officially changed

Solon does not know this law's official route yet. The proposal is recorded all the same, and the route appears here once its source is added.

4 provisions

Title and introductory text

2014 No. 3342 River, England Salmon And Freshwater Fisheries The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014 Made 14th December 2014 Laid before Parliament 19th December 2014 Coming into force 19th January 2015 The Secretary of State has, in accordance with section 1(2) of the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980 consulted Natural England and the Natural Resources Body for Wales and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, and is of the opinion that the species of live fish to which this Order applies might compete with, displace, prey on or harm the habitat of certain species of freshwater fish, shellfish or salmon in England and Wales. The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) of that Act.

Propose a change

1 Title and commencement

(1) This Order— (a) may be cited as the Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014; and (b) comes into force on 19th January 2015.

Propose a change

2 Amendment

(1) The Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (England) Order 2014 is amended as follows. (2) After article 1(2), insert— (3) This Order does not apply to the keeping or release of live fish in inland waters . (3) After article 1, insert— Interpretation 1A. In this Order— “freshwater fish” means any fish living in, or able to live in, fresh water; “inland waters” means any water of a kind specified in section 221 of the Water Resources Act 1991 except that it does not include— the River Tweed, or garden ponds less than 0.4 hectares in area, which are not fished, have no links to other waters and are located within the curtilage of a residential property . (4) For article 2(1), substitute— (1) No person may, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State, keep or release any live freshwater fish, or the live eggs of any freshwater fish, which— (a) belongs to a taxonomic order specified in the first column of the table in Part 1 of the Schedule; and (b) is not native to England and Wales . (5) For Part 1 of the Schedule, substitute the table and the heading that appears in the Schedule to this Order.

Propose a change

SCHEDULE

Article 2(5) Taxonomic orders to which any species of freshwater fish that is not native to England and Wales belongs that may not be kept or released without a licence Taxonomic Order | Common name Acipenseriformes | Sturgeons, Paddlefish Amiiformes | Bowfin Anguilliformes | Eels Atheriniformes | Silversides Batrachoidiformes | Toadfish Beloniformes | Needlefish, Flyingfish Ceratodontiformes | Lungfish Characiformes | Tetras, Characins, Headstanders Clupeiformes | Herrings, Anchovies, Shads Cypriniformes | Carps, Loaches, Minnows Cyprinodontiformes | Killifish, Pupfish Esociformes | Pike Gasterosteiformes | Sticklebacks Gonorynchiformes | Shellears Gymnotiformes | Knifefish Lepidosyreniformes | South American and African Lungfish Lepisosteiformes | Gar or Garpike Myliobatiformes | Stingrays Osmeriformes | Smelt, Noodlefish Osteoglossiformes | Arapaima, Bonytongues Perciformes | Perches, Butterflyfish, Cichlids, Tunas Percopsiformes | Trout-Perch, Cavefish Petromyzontiformes | Lampreys Pleuronectiformes | Flounders and Sole Polypteriformes | Bichirs Salmoniformes | Salmon, Trout, Whitefish Scorpaeniformes | Scorpionfish, Sculpins Siluriformes | Catfish Synbranchiformes | Spiny Eels Syngnathiformes | Pipefish, Seahorses Tetraodontiformes | Pufferfish

Propose a change

← Find another law