Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment Order 1988
Year | 1988 |
1988 No. 964
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELANDCONTAMINATION OF FOOD
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment Order 1988
Made 31th May 1988
Laid before Parliament 1st June 1988
Coming into force 1st June 1988
Whereas the Secretary of State is of the opinion, as mentioned in section 1(1)(a) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1), that there has been or may have been an escape of substances of such descriptions and in such quantities and such circumstances as are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food;
And whereas he is of the opinion, as mentioned in section 1(1)(b) of the said Act, that in consequence of the said escape of substances, food which is, or may be in the future, in the areas described in the Schedule to the principal Order, or which is, or may be in the future, derived from anything in those areas, is, or may be, or may become, unsuitable for human consumption;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and (2), and 24(1) and (3) of the said Act(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, he hereby makes the following Order:
Title, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st June 1988.
(2) In this Order “the principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1988(3).
Designated incident
2. In the opinion of the Secretary of State, food in the areas described in the Schedule to the principal Order, or which is derived from anything in those areas, is or may be unsuitable for human consumption in consequence of the following escape of substances:—
the escape on or after 26th April 1986 of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, USSR.
Amendment of the principal Order
3.—(1) In article 4 of the principal Order for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
“2 Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of—
(a) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or before 27th September 1987 under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark;
(b) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or before 27th September 1987 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a green mark;
(c) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or before 10th January 1988 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the...
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