(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order creates in the Isle of Lewis a new salmon fishery district, to be known as the East Lewis Salmon Fishery District, by amalgamating the districts of the Rivers Creed or Stornoway and Laxay and of the River Greiss which are abolished (article 2 and the Schedule)
Article 3 provides for the retention of regulations relating to the due observance of the weekly close time and to the meshes of nets (matters specified in section 6(6) of the Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1862) which applied in the superseded districts. These will apply in the same way in the new district.
Article 4 provides that the annual close time for the new district is from 27th August to 10th February in each year and that the period when rod and line angling only is permitted is from 27th August to 31st October in each year.