Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Protection) (Scotland) Act 1951

12 Apprehension of offenders

(1) If any person shall be found committing any offence against the provisions of Part I of this Act, the provisions of section twenty-nine of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act, 1868 (which relate to the apprehension of offenders), or, where the offence relates to the River Tweed, the provisions of section thirty-eight of the Tweed Fisheries Act, 1857, shall apply in respect of that person as if he had been found committing any of the offences referred to in the said section twenty-nine or in the said section thirty-eight.

(2) No person other than a water bailiff, constable or person appointed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of section ten of this Act shall have power by virtue of the said section twenty-nine to seize and detain any person who shall be found committing an offence against the said Act of 1868 ; and accordingly the said section twenty-nine shall have effect as if for the reference to person where that word first occurs there were substituted a reference to a water bailiff, constable or person appointed by the Secretary of State as aforesaid.

(3) No person other than a water bailiff, constable or person appointed as aforesaid shall have power by virtue of section thirty-eight of the Tweed Fisheries Act, 1857, to seize and detain any person who shall be found committing an offence against that Act, or the Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act, 1859 and accordingly the said section thirty-eight shall have effect as if for the reference to other person there were substituted a reference to a constable or such person as aforesaid.