# The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No.10) Revocation Order 1987

S.I. 1987/270 · made 25 February 1987

This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 10) Order 1986 (which contained a prohibition on the slaughter of certain sheep following the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, USSR). In consequence the prohibition which applied throughout the United Kingdom on the slaughter, for human consumption or for use in the preparation of feeding stuffs, of sheep which had been moved from the designated areas described in column 1 of Schedule 2 to that Order, between the dates specified in column 2 of that Schedule no longer applies.

Made under: Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (Section 1)

## Introductory text

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES
PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND
PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND
CONTAMINATION OF FOOD
Made 25th February 1987
Laid before Parliament 26th February 1987
Coming into force 27th February 1987
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 10) Revocation Order 1987 and shall come into force on 27th February 1987.

## 2 Revocation

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 10) Order 1986 is hereby revoked.

## Signature

D. J. Essery
Under Secretary,Scottish Office
New St. Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
25th February 1987

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 10) Order 1986 (which contained a prohibition on the slaughter of certain sheep following the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, USSR). In consequence the prohibition which applied throughout the United Kingdom on the slaughter, for human consumption or for use in the preparation of feeding stuffs, of sheep which had been moved from the designated areas described in column 1 of Schedule 2 to that Order, between the dates specified in column 2 of that Schedule no longer applies.

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