Scotland Act 1998
Tax on Wild Fisheries
Tax on Wild Fisheries
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Provision
- 80N
- Source language
- English
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official source1 A tax to which subsection (2) applies is a devolved tax. 2 This subsection applies to taxes on the owners, occupiers or users of wild fisheries, or on the owners or occupiers of the right to fish in wild fisheries, to fund expenditure in respect of— a the conservation of freshwater fish and their habitats, or b the management or regulation of wild fisheries. 3 For the purposes of subsection (2)— “freshwater fish” includes fish that migrate between freshwater and other waters; “wild fishery” means a fishery for freshwater fish, within the limit of 5 kilometres seaward from mean low water springs, that is not a fish farm; “fish farm”— means a pond, stew, hatchery or other place used for keeping, with a view to their sale or to their transfer to other waters (including another fish farm), live fish, live eggs of fish, or foodstuff of fish, and includes any buildings used in connection with a place mentioned in paragraph (a) and the banks and margins of any water in such a place.
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Scotland Act 1998 · legislation.gov.uk · Retrieved 17 August 2026.
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