2001 No. 469
PUBLIC HEALTH
CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 9) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2001

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
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 19851 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 9) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2001 and shall come into force at 1600 hours on 19th December 2001.

Interpretation2.

In this Order “the principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 9) (Scotland) Order 20012.

Partial revocation of the principal Order3.

The principal Order is revoked in so far as it designates any part of Area 1 described in the Schedule to the principal Order.

MARY MULLIGAN
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 9) (Scotland) Order 2001 (“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 those 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 as Area 1 in the Schedule to the principal Order.