Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (Scotland) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/195) (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–

(a)

fishing for or taking scallops within the area designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4 of the principal Order);

(b)

movement of such scallops out of that area (article 5 of the principal Order); and

(c)

landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such scallops from the designated area (article 6 of the principal Order).

The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibitions in respect of the area of sea designated in the Schedule to the principal Order.