The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No. 3) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2002

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 558

PUBLIC HEALTH

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No. 3) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2002

Made

17th December 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

18th December 2002

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2) and 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) (Orkney) (No. 3) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2002 and shall come into force at 1200 hours on 17th December 2002.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No. 3) (Scotland) Order 2002(2).

Revocation

3.  The principal Order is hereby revoked in so far as it applies to the area described in the Schedule to this Order.

MALCOLM CHISHOLM

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

17th December 2002

SCHEDULE DESIGNATED AREA

The area of sea around the islands of Orkney below mean high water springs enclosed by a line extending from Tor Ness on the Island of Hoy at 58°47'North latitude 3°17.5'West longitude; then due south to a point at 58°45'North latitude 3°17.5'West longitude; then due east to a point on the mainland of South Ronaldsay at 58°45'North latitude 3°West longitude; then north along the shoreline South Ronaldsay to 58°50'North latitude 3°West longitude; then due north to a point on the Mainland at 58°57'North latitude 3°West longitude; then west and north along the Mainland shoreline to Breck Ness at 58°58'North latitude 3°21'West longitude; then south and west to the Kame of Hoy on Hoy at 58°55.5'North latitude 3°24'West longitude; then east, south and west along the shoreline of Hoy to the point of beginning.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order is a partial revocation of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No. 3) (Scotland) Order 2002 (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–

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

(b) movement of such scallops out of the designated area (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 area (article 6 of the principal Order).

The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibitions in respect of the area of sea described in the Schedule to this 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. 2002/408.