EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Order 2001 ("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 principal Order had been partially revoked by the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2001 and the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Partial Revocation (No. 2) Order 2001, both of which are also revoked by this Order.
The effect of this Order is to remove the remaining prohibitions in respect of the area of sea designated in the Schedule to the principal Order. Part of the sea designated in the Schedule to the principal Order (being the part revoked by S.S.I. 2001/395) is however subject to new restrictions imposed by the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 10) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/406) and that Order remains in force.
[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.back
[2]
S.S.I. 2001/273, partially revoked by S.S.I. 2001/395 and 413.back
[3]
S.S.I. 2001/395.back
[4]
S.S.I. 2001/413.back
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