{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-order-1991/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-order-1991/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/20",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-protection-emergency-prohibitions-radioactivity-in-sheep-order-1991",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Restrictions throughout the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) No person shall in the United Kingdom—\n(a) slaughter for human consumption or for use in the preparation of feeding stuffs any sheep which was in a designated area described in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order at any time after 8th July 1987 or in a designated area described in Part II of that Schedule at any time after 12th August 1987; or\n(b) supply, or have in possession for supply, any meat derived from a sheep or any food which contains any such meat, if that sheep was in a designated area described in Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order at any time after 8th July 1987 or in a designated area described in Part II of that Schedule at any time after 12th August 1987.\n(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of—\n(a) any sheep which was moved from a designated area in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Act which consent did not require that sheep to be marked and did not require that sheep to be returned to one of the designated areas;\n(b) any sheep which—\n(i) was moved from a designated area in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) which consent required that the sheep to which it applied should be marked with a paint mark; and\n(ii) has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers;\n(c) any sheep—\n(i) which was moved from a designated area in accordance with a consent issued under the said section 2(1); and\n(ii) which was marked with a blue paint mark in accordance with that consent,\non or after 1st April of the year following the year in which it was so marked;\n(d) any sheep—\n(i) which was moved from a designated area in accordance with a consent issued under the said section 2(1); and\n(ii) which was marked with an apricot paint mark in accordance with that consent,\non or after 1st August of the year in which it was so marked; and\n(e) any sheep—\n(i) which was moved from a designated area in accordance with a consent issued under the said section 2(1); and\n(ii) which was marked with a green paint mark in accordance with that consent,\non or after 1st December of the year in which it was so marked.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 14.1.1991, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/20/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:53:26.434188+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}