The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 2 Order 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Order 1987 contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food which has been or which may have been rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the USSR.

This Order excepts from the prohibition on movement into the designated area, being the area described in Schedule 1 to the 1987 Order, any sheep previously moved from that area or from a similarly designated area elsewhere in the United Kingdom in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 which consent did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein.

The Order also excepts from the prohibition on slaughter throughout the United Kingdom any sheep, and from the prohibition on supply throughout the United Kingdom any meat derived from such a sheep, identified by a blue paint mark and which has been moved in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 10th January 1988.