The Export of Sheep (Prohibition) (No. 2) Order 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Orders mentioned in article 2(2) (“emergency orders”) among other things designate areas which have been affected by an accident at a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the USSR (“designated areas”).

This Order (which revokes and re-enacts the Export of Sheep (Prohibition) Order 1987 as amended) prohibits the export from Great Britain to a member State of the European Communities of sheep moved from a place in such a designated area in the circumstances described in article 2. The principal changes are that the present Order includes within its scope designated areas in Northern Ireland, but does not apply in the case of sheep which were marked with an apricot mark on or before 26th July 1987 as a condition of the granting of a consent under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 to its removal from a designated area (article 2(2) and 2(4)(b)).

Export of a sheep is prohibited only for so long as the area from which it is was moved continues to be a designated area. The prohibition extends to sheep which have been moved in accordance with a Ministerial consent which required that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a specified manner and to sheep which have been moved in contravention of a restriction, but it does not apply to those sheep which have been examined and subsequently marked with an ear-tag by an officer authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Scotland or Wales or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland, or which were marked with a blue mark or with an apricot mark as a condition of the granting of a consent referred to in the preceding paragraph given on or before 21st December 1986 or 26th July 1987 respectively.