The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Partial Revocation (No. 2) Order 2000

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 346

PUBLIC HEALTH

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Partial Revocation (No. 2) Order 2000

Made

29th September 2000

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

4th October 2000

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1(1) and (2) and section 24(3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Partial Revocation (No. 2) Order 2000 and shall come into force at 1200 hours on 29th September 2000.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2000(2).

Partial Revocation of the principal Order

3.  The principal Order is revoked insofar as it designates any part of the area described in the Schedule to this Order being an area within Area 3 described in the Schedule to the principal Order.

SUSAN C DEACON

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

29th September 2000

Article 3

SCHEDULE

The area of water below high water springs enclosed by a line starting from a point on the south coast of the Jura at 55°47.8'North latitude 6° West longitude; then south to 55°15'North latitude 6° West longitude; then east to 55°15'North latitude 5°30'West longitude; then north to 55°30'North latitude 5°30'West longitude; then west to a point on the east coast of the Mull of Kintyre at 55°30'North latitude 5°30.32'West longitude; then south, west and north along the mainland shore to 56° North latitude 5°40.5'West longitude; then west to a point on the east coast of Jura at 56° North latitude 5°48'West longitude; then south along the shoreline to the start point.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is the second partial revocation of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2000 (S.S.I. 2000/291) (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–

(a) fishing for or taking scallops within the areas designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4 of the principal Order);

(b) movement of such scallops out of these areas (article 5 of the principal Order); and

(c) landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such scallops from the designated areas (article 6 of the principal Order).

The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibitions in respect of the area of sea designated in the Schedule to this Order, which forms part of the area of sea designated as Area 3 in the Schedule to the principal Order.

(1)

1985 c. 48; section 1(1) and (2) was amended by section 51(2)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16); section 1(2) defines “designating authority”; section 1(2) was further amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756), Schedule, paragraph 10(2) and (3), the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28), Schedule 5, paragraph 6 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2040), Schedule, Part I, paragraph 12.

(2)

S.S.I. 2000/291, partially revoked by S.S.I. 2000/313.