Explanatory note

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Wales) (No. 5) Order 1987, as amended by S.I. 1988/9, 951 1329, 1680, 1989/2, 660, 1279, 1770, 1990/34 and 1161 contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent the 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 a green paint mark and which is moved in accordance with a Ministerial consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 on or after 30th July 1990 and which has been 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, the Secretary of State for Wales or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.