Prohibition of Keeping or Release of Live Fish (Specified Species) (Scotland) Order 2003 (S.S.I. No. 560 of 2003).

This Order prohibits the keeping or release in Scotland of any species of fish or the live eggs of fish specified in Schedules 1 and 2 to the Order, except under authority of a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers (art. 3). Section 3 of the Act provides that any person who keeps or releases any of the species of fish specified in Schedules 1 and 2 on the date the Order comes into force without a valid licence or who contravenes the terms of a licence shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale. In addition to prohibiting the keeping or release of certain fish specified for the first time in the Order, the Order consolidates and revokes three other Orders. The species which were specified in these three Orders are now specified in Schedule 2 to the Order.