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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amendment-no2-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1353",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment No.2 Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amendment-no2-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1988 (“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.\nThe principal Order made certain exceptions to the following prohibitions imposed by articles 4, 5 and 6 of that Order:—\n(a) the prohibition on slaughter of sheep in any of the designated areas;\n(b) the prohibition on movement of sheep;\n(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.\nThis Order revises the exceptions as follows—\n(i) to except from the prohibitions on slaughter and from the said prohibition on the supply of meat, any sheep which has been marked (in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985) with a green paint mark on or after 1st August 1988 and which 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, or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland (article 3(1) and (3));\n(ii) to except from the prohibition on movement, any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or after 1st August 1988 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a green paint mark (article 3(2)).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1353/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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