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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amendment-no3-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1535",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment (No.3) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amendment-no3-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1989 contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape in April 1986 of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the Ukraine, USSR.\nThis Order excepts from the prohibition on slaughter throughout the United Kingdom any sheep, and from the prohibition on supply throughout the United Kingdom any meat derived from such a sheep, identified by a green paint mark and which has been moved in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 on or after 30th July 1990, and which has been examined and marked by an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland or Wales or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1535/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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