The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2766

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND

PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation Order 1991

Made

6th December 1991

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1991

Coming into force

11th December 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and (2) and 24(1) and (3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985((1)) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation Order 1991 and shall come into force on 11th December 1991.

Partial revocation

2.  The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991((2)) is revoked so far as it designates any part of the areas set out in the Schedule to this Order.

I.W. Gordon

Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th December 1991

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Dumfries and Galloway Region

1.  The area of land within Stewartry District comprising that part of the Parish of Kirkgunzeon bounded as follows:–

• On the north from the point national grid reference NX871653 eastwards to the point national grid reference NX 878653 on the Glaisters Burn and then generally south easterly by the said burn until it meets the Plascow Rig Plantation; then south-westerly along the western edge of the said plantation to the point national grid reference NX875637 and northerly to the point national grid reference NX877653.

Strathclyde Region

2.  The area of land within Cumnock and Doon Valley District comprising that part of the Parish of Old Cumnock bounded as follows:–

• On the north from the point national grid reference NS628194 and continuing in a southeasterly direction by the boundary between the Parishes of Auchinleck and Old Cumnock until it meets the boundary between the Parishes of Old Cumnock and New Cumnock; then in a southerly then a north-westerly direction by said boundary to the point national grid reference NS628174 and continuing in a northerly direction to the point national grid reference NS629179; then generally in a northerly direction by the unnamed burn to the point national grid reference NS628194.

Central Region

3.  That area of land within Stirling District comprising that part of the Parish of Callander bounded as follows:–

• On the north from the point national grid reference NN547055 where the parish boundary meets the south shore of Loch Venachar and then eastwards and north-easterly by the southern shore of the said loch and the Eas Gobhain River to the plantation south of the said river; then continuing generally in an easterly direction by the western and southern boundaries of the plantation to the Road A81 and continuing in a southerly direction by the said road to the point national grid reference NN633062; then in an easterly direction to the River Teith and continuing in a southerly direction by said river until it meets the boundary between the Parishes of Callander and Kilmadock; then continuing in a south-westerly direction along said boundary until it meets the boundary between the Parishes of Callander and Port-of-Menteith; then continuing in a westerly direction by said boundary until it meets the boundary between the Parishes of Callander and Aberfoyle and continuing in a northerly direction along said boundary until the southern shore of Loch Venachar at point national grid reference NN547055.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/20) which 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, USSR.

This Order reduces the area subject to restriction.

(1)

1985 c. 48; section 1 was amended by section 51 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16). Section 1(2) defines “designating authority” and section 24(1) contains a definition of “the Ministers” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which this Order is made.

(2)

S.I. 1991/20.