The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1988

Restrictions throughout the United Kingdom

6.—(1) No person shall in the United Kingdom—

(a) slaughter for human consumption or for use in the preparation of feeding stuffs any sheep which was in a designated area described in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order at any time after 8th July 1987 or in a designated area described in Part II of that Schedule at any time after 12th August 1987; or

(b) supply, or have in possession for supply, any meat derived from a sheep or any food which contains any such meat, if that sheep was in a designated area described in Part I of the Schedule to this Order at any time after 8th July 1987 or in a designated area described in Part II of that Schedule at any time after 12th August 1987.

(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 said Act 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—

(i) was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or after 28th 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 blue mark; or

(ii) was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or after 11th January 1988 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 an apricot mark,

and which in either case has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers.