{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-and-other-shellfish-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-and-other-shellfish-regulations-1992/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3164",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-and-other-shellfish-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of certain areas",
  "text": "(1) The Ministers shall designate sea waters and brackish waters from which live bivalve molluscs may be taken in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations, referred to in these Regulations as “designated bivalve production areas” and shall specify as respects each area of water designated by them whether it is—\n(a) a class A area from which molluscs can be gathered as specified in Part 1 of Schedule 3;\n(b) a class B area from which molluscs can be gathered as specified in Part 2 of Schedule 3;\n(c) a class C area from which molluscs can be gathered as specified in Part 3 of Schedule 3,\nand any such designation may be made subject to any limitation, condition or restriction as the Ministers think fit.\n(2) Each food authority shall designate as a relaying area any area within its district which—\n(a) has been designated as being a class A or B area in accordance with Schedule 3, and\n(b) in its opinion is suitable for the relaying of live bivalve molluscs if the conditions specified in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 3 and in Schedule 4 are satisfied,\nand, where the Ministers have notified the food authority that specified conditions relating to the matters mentioned in Schedule 4 should be complied with in operating the relaying area, the food authority shall make that designation subject to those conditions.\n(3) The food authority shall notify the Ministers of any designation made under paragraph (2) and of its terms.\n(4) The Ministers shall maintain and publish—\n(a) a list of designated bivalve mollusc production areas, and\n(b) a list of any areas which food authorities have designated as suitable for relaying,\nand amendments to these limits shall be published from time to time.\n(5) The Ministers shall send a copy of the list, and of any amendments to it, to each food authority and to any other person of whom they are aware who, in its view, is directly affected by these Regulations.\n(6) Each food authority shall take such action as it considers sufficient to bring the relevant part of such list to the attention of any harvester, handler, and operator of either a purification centre or dispatch centre in its area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2782",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3164/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:03.396871+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."
}