EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order is the eighth partial revocation of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Order 1999 (S.S.I. 1999/26) ("the principal Order") which prohibited-
(a) fishing for or taking scallops within the area designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4 of the principal Order);
(b) movement of such scallops out of that 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 areas of sea designated in the Schedule to this Order, which form part of the area of sea designated as Area A 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). 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. 1999/26; partially revoked by S.S.I. 1999/114, S.S.I. 1999/141, S.S.I. 1999/169, S.S.I. 2000/13, S.S.I. 2000/17, S.S.I.2000/21 and S.S.I. 2000/24back
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