Food Safety Act 1990

51 Contamination of food: emergency orders

(1) Part I of the [1985 c. 48.] Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (contamination of food) shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, subject to the amendments specified in subsection (2) below.

(2) The amendments referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) in subsection (1) of section 1 (power to make emergency orders), the substitution for paragraph (a) of the following paragraph—

“(a) there exist or may exist circumstances which are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food;”;

(b) in subsection (2) of that section, the omission of the definition of “escape”;

(c) the substitution for subsection (5) of that section of the following subsection—

“(5) An emergency order shall refer to the circumstances or suspected circumstances in consequence of which in the opinion of the designating authority making it food such as is mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above is, or may be, or may become, unsuitable for human consumption; and in this Act “designated circumstances” means the circumstances or suspected circumstances to which an emergency order refers in pursuance of this subsection.”;

(d) in section 2(3) (powers when emergency order has been made), the substitution for the words “a designated incident” of the words “designated circumstances”;

(e) in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 4 (powers of officers), the substitution for the words “an escape of substances” of the words “such circumstances as are mentioned in section 1(1) above”; and

(f) in paragraphs (b) and (c) of that subsection, the substitution for the words “the designated incident” of the words “the designated circumstances”.