# The Export of Sheep (Prohibition) Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
The Orders mentioned in article 2(2) (“emergency Orders”) among other things designate areas which have been affected by an accident at a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the USSR (“designated areas”).
This Order (which revokes and re-enacts the Export of Sheep (Prohibition) (No. 2) Order 1986) prohibits the export from Great Britain to a member State of the European Communities of sheep moved from a place in such a designated area in the circumstances described in article 2. The principal change is that the present Order does not apply in the case of sheep which have been examined and subsequently marked by an ear-tag by an officer authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Scotland or Wales (article 2(4)).
Export of a sheep is prohibited only for so long as the area from which it was moved continues to be a designated area. The prohibition extends to sheep which have been moved in accordance with a Ministerial consent which required that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a specified manner and to sheep which have been moved in contravention of a restriction, but it does not apply to those sheep which have been examined and subsequently marked by an ear-tag by an official referred to in the preceeding paragraph.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/211/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-sheep-prohibition-order-1987/note
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