The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 3) Revocation Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1386 (S. 131)

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND

PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 3) Revocation Order 1991

Made

13th June 1991

Laid before Parliament

14th June 1991

Coming into force

14th June 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 3) Revocation Order 1991 and shall come into force on 14th June 1991.

Revocation

2.  The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No.3) Order 1991(2) is hereby revoked.

E. C. Davison

Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office

Pentland House,

Edinburgh

13th June 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 3) Order 1991, which contained a prohibition against fishing for or taking bivalve molluscs or Norway lobsters, in a designated area of the Firth of Forth, and other restrictions which were imposed throughout the United Kingdom.

(1)

1985 c. 48; section 1 was amended by section 51 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16), and section 24(1) was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 3 to that Act; section 1(2) defines “designating authority” and section 24(1) defines “the Ministers”.

(2)

S.I. 1991/1296.