1. This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 4 Order 1990 and shall come into force on 1st October 1990.
2. The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Order 1987 is revoked to the extent that it imposes prohibitions on—
(a)the slaughter of a sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 on or before 29th July 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark; and
(b)the slaughter of a sheep which—
(i)is moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or after 1st October 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark; and
(ii)has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers; and
(c)the supply or having in possession for supply of meat, or food containing meat, derived from a sheep described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this article,
and accordingly that Order is further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
3. In article 6, for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of—
(a)any sheep which was moved to a market in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Act which consent did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein;
(b)any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 14th January 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark;
(c)any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 29th July 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark;
(d)any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 1st October 1989 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a green mark; or
(e)any sheep which—
(i)was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a red mark; or
(ii)was moved from any place in accordance with such a consent given on or after 1st October 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark; or
(iii)was moved from any place in accordance with such a consent given on or after 30th July 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a green mark,
and which, in any case, has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers.”.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 22nd September 1990.
L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food