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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-england-order-1987/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1893",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-england-order-1987",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Restrictions throughout the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, no person shall, in the United Kingdom—\n(a) slaughter for human consumption or for use in the preparation of feeding stuffs any sheep that was in the designated area at any time after 11 am on 20th June 1986; or\n(b) supply, or have in possession for supply, any meat derived from a sheep, or any food which contains any such meat, if that sheep was in the designated area at any time after 11 am on 20th June 1986.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of—\n(a) any sheep which was moved to a market in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Act which consent did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein;\n(b) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 21st December 1986 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark;\n(c) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 26th July 1987 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark; or\n(d) any sheep which—\n(i) was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a red mark or with a green mark; or\n(ii) was moved from any place in accordance with such a consent given on or after 28th September 1987 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark,\nand which, in either case, has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No.3 Order 1988"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1283",
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment Order 1990"
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/7",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment Order 1988"
    },
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 4 Order 1990"
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment Order 1989"
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      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1121",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 2 Order 1990"
    },
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      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/1768",
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    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1679",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 4 Order 1988"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1494",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 3 Order 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/658",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 2 Order 1989"
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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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