SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15 Minor and consequential amendments relating to fisheries

The Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975

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In section 18 of that Act (provisions supplementary to Part II) for subsection (2) (notice of application for Ministerial consent to the doing of certain acts to be given to the owner and occupier of the dam etc in question) there shall be substituted—

2

The Agency shall not—

a

construct, abolish or alter any fish pass, or abolish or alter any free gap, in pursuance of section 10 above, or

b

do any work under section 15 above,

unless reasonable notice of its intention to do so (specifying the section in question) has been served on the owner and occupier of the dam, fish pass or free gap, watercourse, mill race, cut, leat, conduit or other channel, with a plan and specification of the proposed work; and the Agency shall take into consideration any objections by the owner or occupier, before doing the proposed work.