EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No. 2) (Scotland) Order 1999 ("the principal Order") which prohibited-
(a) fishing for or taking of scallops of the class pecten maximus and Queen scallops of the class chlamys opercubis within the area designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 3);
(b) movement of such scallops out of that area (article 5); 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).
The principal Order was partially revoked insofar as it related to Queen scallops by the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (No. 2) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 1999 (S.S.I. 1999/160).
The effect of this Order is to remove the remaining prohibitions in respect of scallops of the class pecten maximus in the area of sea designated 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) and by the Food Standards Act 1999 (c.28), Schedule 5, paragraph 6. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).back
[2]
S.S.I. 1999/42; partially revoked by S.S.I. 1999/160.back
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