Article 2 Prohibition of export of sheep
No person shall export from Great Britain to a member State any sheep to which this Order applies.
Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, this Order applies to any sheep which –
was moved from a place situated in an area which is a designated area for the purposes of Part I of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985f1 by virtue of –
article 3 of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) (No. 2) Order 1986f2;
article 3 of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Wales) (No. 4) Order 1987f3;
article 3 of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1987f6
in accordance with the terms of a consent under section 2(1) of that Act (consent to the doings of things prohibited by an emergency order under section 1 of that Act) which required that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein; or
was moved from such an area in contravention of a prohibition on its movement imposed by an order made under section 1(1) of that Act (which empowers the making of emergency orders) which applied to that sheep at the time it was moved.
This Order applies to a sheep only for so long as the area from which it has been moved remains a designated area for the purposes of any of the orders referred to in paragraph (2)(a) above.
Paragraph (2)(a) above shall not apply in the case of –
any sheep which has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by the appropriate Minister or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; or
any sheep which was marked with a blue mark or with an apricot mark as a condition of the granting of a consent under section 2(1) of that Act to its removal from a designated area given on or before 21st December 1986 or 26th July 1987 respectively.