Scottish Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 38

PUBLIC HEALTH

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2007

Made

1st February 2007

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

2nd February 2007

Coming into force

5th February 2007

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) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 5th February 2007.

Partial Revocation

2.  The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991(2) is revoked in so far as it designates any part of the areas set out in the Schedule to this Order.

LEWIS MACDONALD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

1st February 2007

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Strathclyde Region

The area of land within Cumnock and Doon Valley District comprising that part of the Parish of Dalmellington bounded as follows:–

The area of land within the former Kilmarnock and Loudoun District, now North Ayrshire Council area, comprising that part of the Parish of Galston bounded as follows:–

The area of land within Kilmarnock and Loudoun District comprising that part of the Parish of Fenwick bounded as follows:–

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which forms part of Scots law only, is a partial revocation of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/20).

That Order contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food which has been, or which may have been, rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the Ukraine.

The effect of this Order is to reduce the area which is subject to restriction.

(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.