{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-england-no2-amendment-no6-order-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1803",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) (No.2) Amendment No.6 Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-england-no2-amendment-no6-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) (No.2) Order 1986 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 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 blue paint mark on or after 28th September 1987 which have been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised 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",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1803/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:18.281215+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}