# The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment 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.
This Order excepts certain sheep from the following prohibitions imposed by the principal Order:—
(a) the prohibition on slaughter of sheep in any of the designated areas (article 3(1));
(b) the prohibition on movement (article 3(2));
(c) the prohibition applying throughout the United Kingdom on the slaughter of, and the supply of meat derived from, sheep which have been in the designated areas (article 3(3)).
In article 3(2) an exception is made in respect of sheep which have been marked with an apricot or a green mark. In article 3(1) and (3) exceptions are made in respect of sheep which have been so marked and which have in addition 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1567/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-amendment-order-1987/note
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