Scottish Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 395
PUBLIC HEALTH
CONTAMINATION OF FOOD
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2001
Made
24th October 2001
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
26th October 2001
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:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2001 and shall come into force at 1700 hours on 24th October 2001.
Revocation
2. The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Order 2001(2) is hereby revoked in so far as it designates any part of the area set out in the Schedule to this Order.
MALCOLM CHISHOLM
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
24th October 2001
Article 2
SCHEDULE
The area of sea below mean high water springs enclosed by a line starting on the west coast of Kintyre at 55°45'North latitude 5°35'West longitude; then west to 55°45'North latitude 6°West longitude; then south to 55°30'North latitude 6°West longitude; then east to the coast of Kintyre at 55°30'North latitude 5°43'West longitude; then north along the shoreline to the point of beginning.
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Order 2001 (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–
(a)fishing for or taking scallops within the area designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4 of the principal Order);
(b)movement of such scallops out of that area (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 area (article 6 of the principal Order).
The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibitions in respect of the area of sea designated in the Schedule to this 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.