Scottish Statutory Instruments
PUBLIC HEALTH
CONTAMINATION OF FOOD
Made
16th December 2002
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
18th December 2002
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Scottish Ministers, 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 of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 14) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2002 and shall come into force at 1700 hours on 16th December 2002.
2. In this Order “the principal Order” means the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 14) (Scotland) Order 2002(2).
3. The principal Order is hereby revoked in so far as it designates any part of the area described as Area 2 in the Schedule to the principal Order.
MALCOLM CHISHOLM
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
16th December 2002
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order is a partial revocation of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 14) (Scotland) Order 2002 (“the principal Order”) which prohibited–
(a)fishing for or taking scallops within the areas designated in the Schedule to the principal Order (article 4 of the principal Order);
(b)movement of such scallops out of the designated areas (article 5 of the principal Order); and
(c)landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such scallops from the designated areas (article 6 of the principal Order).
The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibitions in respect of the area of sea designated as Area 2 in the Schedule to the principal Order.
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.
S.S.I. 2002/482.