# The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1989, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1988 (“the 1988 Order”).
This Order continues the emergency prohibitions imposed by the 1988 Order 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.
The Order designates again areas in Scotland affected by the escape from and into which the movement of sheep and in which the slaughter of sheep are prohibited (articles 3, 4(1) and 5(1) and the Schedule). Restrictions on the slaughter of sheep from the designated areas, and the supply of meat derived from such sheep, extend throughout the United Kingdom (article 6(1)).
This Order continues the exceptions to the prohibitions re-enacted by articles 4, 5 and 6—
(a) the prohibition on slaughter of sheep in any of the designated areas;
(b) the prohibition on movement of sheep;
(c) the prohibition applying throughout the United Kingdom on the slaughter of, and the supply of meat derived from, any sheep which has been in the designated areas,
but subject to revisals to those exceptions as follows:—
(i) to except from the prohibition on movement referred to at (b) above, any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or after 9th January 1989 under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot paint mark (article 5(2));
(ii) to except from the prohibition on slaughter and supply of meat referred to at (c) above—
(a) any sheep which has been marked (in accordance with such a consent) with an apricot paint mark on or after 9th January 1989 and which has 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, or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland (article 6(2)), and
(b) any sheep which has been marked (in accordance with such a consent) with a green paint mark on or before 2nd October 1988 without the necessity of such sheep having 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, or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland (article 6(2)).
The exception to the prohibition on slaughter referred to at (a) above remains unchanged.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/3/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-order-1989/note
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