The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Oil and Chemical Pollution of Fish) (No. 2) Order 1993 Revocation (Scotland) Order 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

This Order, which applies only to Scotland, revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Oil and Chemical Pollution of Fish) (No. 2) Order (S.I. 1993/143) (“the principal Order”).

The principal Order prohibited–

(a) fishing for or taking fish within the area designated in the Schedule to the principal Order (article 4);

(b) movement of such fish out of that area (article 5); and

(c) the using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, landing, supplying and other specified activities in relation to such fish from the designated area (article 6),

in order to prevent human consumption of food rendered unsuitable for that purpose by virtue of fish and shellfish having been affected by oil and other chemical pollutants.

The principal Order had been partially revoked (by S.I. 1993/1151, S.I. 1993/3058, S.I. 1994/2555 and S.I. 1995/292) and remained only in force in relation to restrictions on fishing for mussels (Mytilis edulis) and Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus). The effect of this Order is to remove the remaining prohibitions in respect of mussels (Mytilis edulis) and Norway lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus) in relation to the area of sea designated in the principal Order.