Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1998 (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–

(a)

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

(b)

movement of such shellfish out of that area (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 area within the United Kingdom (article 6).

The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibition from fishing for, taking, moving, landing, using in food production and supplying cockles, from the area designated in the Schedule to the principal Order.