http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1746/article/6/madeThe Scotland Act 1998 (Border Rivers) Order 1999Fisheries and aquacultureLegislationKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2015-04-16CONSTITUTIONAL LAWDEVOLUTION, SCOTLAND;RIVER, SCOTLAND RIVER, ENGLAND AND WALES, SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIESThis Order makes provision in relation to the River Esk by–preserving functions of Ministers of the Crown in relation to that River in Scotland but making their exercise subject to the agreement of Scottish Ministers;giving new power to make byelaws for, or in connection with, the conservation, management or exploitation of salmon, trout, eels and freshwater fish in the Upper Esk (as defined in article 1(2)), to the Environment Agency;creating a new offence of unauthorised fishing in the Lower Esk (as defined in article 1(2));giving powers to water bailiffs to enforce these new provisions and extending existing powers of water bailiffs and other authorised persons to the whole of the River Esk;creating new offences applicable to those powers;defining the extent of waters to the landward of the estuary limits of the River Esk; andrequiring the Environment Agency to send a copy of their annual report to the Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Ministers to lay it before the Scottish Parliament.PART IIRIVER ESK
6Fishing without right or licence in the Lower Esk1

No person shall fish for or take salmon or sea trout in the Lower Esk unless either–

a

he does so under the authority of, and in accordance with, a licence granted by the Environment Agency under section 25 of the 1975 Act; or

b

he has a legal right to fish for salmon or he has written permission from a person having such a right.

2

Any person who has in his possession, for the purpose of fishing for salmon or sea trout in the Lower Esk, an instrument other than one which he is authorised, by any rule of law or, in the case of fishing under the authority of a licence, by that licence, to use for that purpose, shall be guilty of an offence.

3

Section 1 of the 1951 Act and section 27 of the 1975 Act shall cease to have effect in relation to the Lower Esk.

4

Subject to paragraph (6) below a licence granted by the Environment Agency may only authorise fishing in any part of the Lower Esk lying on or towards the south of a line representing the medium filum, at low water, of the main channel of the River Esk and of the main channel of the River Eden downsteam of its confluence at low water with the main channel of the River Esk, wherever that line may be from time to time.

5

A legal right to fish for salmon, or a written permission given by a person having such a right, shall authorise fishing–

a

in any part of the Lower Esk lying on or towards the north of the line described in paragraph (4) above; and

b

to the extent that right or permission so authorises, in any other part of the Lower Esk.

6

A licence granted by the Environment Agency shall not apply to any part of the Lower Esk which is the subject of a grant of fishings granted by King James V of Scotland to the Burghers of Annan by Royal Charter dated 1st March 1538 and re-stated on 10th July 1612.

7

It shall be for any person claiming to have a legal right to fish for salmon, or to have written permission from such a person, to prove that he has that right or permission.

8

In this article–

“legal right to fish for salmon” means–

a

a right of ownership of salmon fishings contained in a title recorded in the Register of Sasines or entered in the Land Register of Scotland;

b

the right of a tenant under a lease of salmon fishings granted by a person having a right under (a) above or (d) below;

c

the right of any person vest by operation of law in the heritable property of a person having a right under (a) above or (d) below; or

d

a right of salmon fishings under Royal Warrant or Royal Charter.

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