Scottish Statutory Instruments
PUBLIC HEALTH
CONTAMINATION OF FOOD
Made
6th March 2006
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
7th March 2006
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) and (2) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (East Coast) (Scotland) Order 2005 Revocation Order 2006 and shall come into force at 1630 hours on 6th March 2006.
2. The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (East Coast) (Scotland) Order 2005(2) is hereby revoked.
PAM WHITTLE
A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
6th March 2006
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (East Coast) (Scotland) Order 2005 (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–
(a)fishing for or taking scallops within the areas designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4 of the principal Order);
(b)movement of such scallops out of those areas (article 5 of the principal Order); and
(c)landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such scallops from the designated areas (article 6 of the principal Order).
The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibitions in respect of the areas of sea designated in the Schedule to the principal Order.
1985 c. 48; section 1(1) and (2) was amended by section 51(2)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16); section 1(2) defines “designating authority”; section 1(2) was further amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756), Schedule, paragraph 10(2) and (3), the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28), Schedule 5, paragraph 6 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2040), Schedule, Part I, paragraph 12.