Explanatory note

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Wales) (No. 4) Order 1987 contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food which has been or which may have been rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the USSR.

This Order excepts from the prohibition on slaughter throughout the United Kingdom any sheep, and from the prohibition on supply throughout the United Kingdom any meat derived from such a sheep, identified by an apricot paint mark which are no longer required to be examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales (article 3).

The Order also limits the scope of the existing exception from those prohibitions in respect of sheep identified by a blue paint mark to sheep for the movement of which a consent was given on or before 21st December 1986 (article 3).