Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes insofar as remaining in force the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1998 (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–

(a)

fishing for or taking shellfish within the areas designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4);

(b)

movement of such shellfish out of those areas (article 5); and

(c)

landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such shellfish from the designated areas within the United Kingdom (article 6).

The effect of this Order is to remove all the removal prohibitions from fishing for, taking, moving, landing, using in food production and supplying shellfish, from the areas designated in the Schedule to the principal Order.