# The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment No.2 Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1987 ( “the principal Order”) contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food which has been or which may have been rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, USSR.
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment Order 1987 made certain exceptions to the following prohibitions imposed by articles 4, 5 and 6 of the principal Order:—
(a) the prohibition on slaughter of sheep in any of the designated areas;
(b) the prohibition on movement of sheep;
(c) the prohibition applying throughout the United Kingdom on the slaughter of, and the supply of meat derived from, any sheep which has been in the designated areas.
This Order revises these exceptions as follows:—
(a) to except from the said prohibitions on slaughter, and from the said prohibition on the supply of meat, any sheep which has been marked (in accordance with a condition attached to a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985) with an apricot paint mark without the necessity of such sheep having been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Scotland or Wales (article 3(1) and (3));
(b) to except from the said prohibition on movement any sheep which has been so marked with a blue paint mark (article 3(2));
(c) to except from the said prohibitions on slaughter, and from the said prohibition on the supply of meat, any sheep which has been so marked with a blue paint mark where any such sheep has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Scotland or Wales (article 3(1) and (3)).
The exceptions from the said prohibition on movement of any sheep which has been so marked with an apricot or with a green paint mark, remain unchanged.
The exceptions from the said prohibitions on slaughter of sheep, and from the said prohibition on the supply of meat, where any such sheep has been so marked with a green paint mark, and where any such sheep has been examined and marked by an ear-tag by a person authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Scotland or Wales, also remain unchanged.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1696/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amendment-no2-order-1987/note
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