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This Order contains emergency prohibitions restricting variousactivities in order to prevent human consumption of food likely to havebeen rendered unsuitable for that purpose by virtue of shellfish beingaffected by the toxin which causes paralytic shellfish poisoning inhuman beings.
The Order designates an area within which taking scallopsis prohibited (articles 3 and 4 and the Schedule). It prohibits themovement of scallops out of that area (article 5). Other restrictionsare imposed throughout the United Kingdom in relation to the use of anyscallops taken from that area (article 6).
Under section 21 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 the penalty for contravening an emergency prohibition is—
(a)on summary conviction, a fine of an amount not exceeding thestatutory maximum (at present £2,000);
(b)on conviction on indictment, an unlimited fine, or imprisonment fora term of not more than two years, or both.
Powers of enforcement in relation to emergency prohibitions are conferred by section 4 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1985 Act. Obstruction of enforcement officers is an offence under paragraph 10 of that Schedule.
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