The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2008

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2008 No. 63

PUBLIC HEALTH

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2008

Made

27th February 2008

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

28th February 2008

Coming into force

29th February 2008

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2) and 24(3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2008 and comes into force on 29th February 2008.

(2) In this Order, the “principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991(2).

Partial Revocation

2.—(1) The principal Order is revoked in so far as it designates any part of the area set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

(2) Part II of Schedule 1 to the principal Order is amended in accordance with Schedule 2 to this Order.

SHONA ROBISON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th February 2008

Article 2(1)

SCHEDULE 1

Strathclyde Region

The area of land within the former Eastwood District, now East Renfrewshire Council area, comprising that part of the Parish of Eaglesham bounded as follows:–

• On the north west at Soame Bridge on the Road B764; continuing in a north easterly direction along said Road to the point national grid reference NS553508; then continuing in a south westerly direction to the point national grid reference NS547501; and then continuing generally in an easterly direction by the Dunwan Burn to the point national grid reference NS569498; and then generally in a southerly direction to the point national grid reference NS572488 and on to the point national grid reference NS572477 on the Carrot Burn; then north-easterly along the Carrot Burn to the point national grid reference NS577481 and continuing in the same general direction to the point national grid reference NS585482 and to the point national grid reference NS593491; then in a south easterly direction to the point national grid reference NS595490; then continuing in a southerly direction to the point national grid reference NS596484 and in a south-easterly direction to the point national grid reference NS604482; then continuing in a generally south-westerly and north-westerly direction following the Eaglesham Parish boundary with the Parishes of East Kilbride, Galston and Fenwick, to the point of intersection with Soame Bridge on the Road B764.

Article 2(2)

SCHEDULE 2

Strathclyde Region

For paragraph 2(d)(iii) of Part II of Schedule 1 to the principal Order substitute:–

“(iii) On the west from the point national grid reference NS654235 on the boundary between the Parishes of Muirkirk and Auchinleck, in a north easterly direction to the source of the March Burn at the point national grid reference NS656238; then in a north easterly direction following the said burn to the point national grid reference NS659246; then following hard boundary in a south easterly direction to intersection with the Proscribe Burn at the point national grid reference NS672240; then following hard boundary in a north-easterly direction to point of intersection of dismantled railway and unnamed burn at the point national grid reference NS684257; then following line of dismantled railway in a north-easterly direction to point of intersection with unnamed burn at the point national grid reference NS701268; then in a south easterly direction following the line of said burn to the point national grid reference NS704263; then in a south-easterly direction to the summit of The Steel at spot height 413 metres; then in a south easterly direction to the summit of Cairn Table at spot height 593 metres on Muirkirk Parish boundary; then in a southerly direction, following the line of said boundary, to the summit of Stony Hill at spot height 562 metres; then in a westerly direction following the line of the boundary between the Parishes of Muirkirk and Auchinleck to the point national grid reference NS654235.”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991.

That Order 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 Ukraine.

The effect of this Order is to reduce the area which is subject to restriction.

(1)

1985 c. 48; section 1(1) and (2) was amended by section 51(2)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16); section 1(2) defines “designating authority”; section 1(2) was further amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1756), Schedule, paragraph 10(2) and (3), the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28), Schedule 5, paragraph 6 and the Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2040), Schedule, Part I, paragraph 12.

(2)

S.I. 1991/20, partially revoked by S.I. 1991/2766, 1993/13, 1994/50, 1995/48, 1996/31, 1997/62, 1998/82, 1999/80 and S.S.I. 2001/313, 2003/375, 2004/48, 2005/71, 2006/52 and 2007/38