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

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2776

PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

PUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND

PUBLIC HEALTH, NORTHERN IRELAND

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

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

Made

9th December 1991

Laid before Parliament

10th December 1991

Coming into force

11th December 1991

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, being of the opinion in accordance with section 1(1) of that Act that there exist or may exist circumstances which are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food and that in consequence food which is or may be in the future derived from sheep in the area described in Part II of the Schedule to the following Order is, or may be, or may become, unsuitable for human consumption, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and Commencement

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

Partial Revocation

2.  –

(1) The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) (England) Order 1991(2) is revoked so far as it designates those parts of the area set out in Part I of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) In consequence of that revocation the designated area for the purposes of that Order is that area set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Order.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 9th December 1991.

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Article 2

SCHEDULE

PART I Parts of the area no longer designated

Langdale Area

From Cockley Beck Bridge (OS Map Ref: NY 247017); east along Wrynose Pass to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 276027; east on the minor road via Fell Foot to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 302034; north west along the minor road to where it crosses Great Langdale Beck at OS Map Ref NY 285060; north west along Great Langdale Beck through Mickleden to Rossett Gill; north west along Rossett Gill to where it meets a footpath at Rossett Pike (OS Map Ref NY 248075); north west on the footpath to its junction with a footpath (OS Map Ref NY 245078); north west along the footpath to its junction with a footpath (OS Map Ref NY 235083); south west along the footpath to where it meets the River Esk (OS Map Ref NY 231074); south along the River Esk to Wha House Bridge at OS Map Ref NY 204009; east following minor road over Hardknott Pass to Cockley Beck Bridge.

Moss Cottage

From Bobbin Mill Bridge (OS Map Ref SD 190926); north along track to Rainsbarrow Wood at OS Map Ref SD 190927; north east along boundary of Rainsbarrow Wood to where it meets the road at OS Map Ref SD 197934; south west along the minor road to Bobbin Mill Bridge.

PART II

Area remaining designated

The Area comprising those parts of the county of Cumbria which lie within the following boundary:–

From Hall Dunnerdale Bridge (OS Map Ref SD 213953) north east along River Duddon to Cockley Beck Bridge (OS Map Ref NY 247017); west following minor road over Hardknott Pass to Wha House Bridge at OS Map Ref NY 204009; north along River Esk to where it meets the footpath at OS Map Ref NY 231074; north east along footpath to its junction with a footpath at OS Map Ref NY 235083; south east along footpath to its junction with a footpath at OS Map Ref NY 245078; north along the stream which leaves Angle Tarn to Langstrath Beck; north east along Langstrath Beck to its confluence with Greenup Gill; north west along Stonewaithe Beck to where it meets the road B5289 at Rosthwaithe (OS Map Ref NY 258145); south west on the road B5289 to Seatoller; north west on the road B5289 via Honister Pass and Gatesgarth to where it meets Buttermere (OS Map Ref NY 191153); through the centre of Buttermere to its north west corner (OS Map Ref NY 173163); north west along a river to where it flows into Crummock Water; north through the middle of Crummock Water to where the River Cocker flows out of it; north along the River Cocker to where it is crossed by a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 148215; south west on the minor road to its junction with a track at OS Map Ref NY 137212; west along track to where it joins a footpath at OS Map Ref NY 126212; follow footpath north along southern edge of Loweswater Lake; north via Hudson Place to where it meets the minor road at OS Map Ref NY 116227 west on the minor road to its junction with a minor road at Fangs Brow Farm (OS Map Ref NY 105228); south west on the minor road via Lamplugh to its junction with a minor road at Croasdale (OS Map Ref NY 093174); north east on a minor road to OS Map Ref NY 094176; north east following field boundaries to OS Map Ref NY 097177; south east following fell walls along edge of Banna Fell and Herdus Fell to OS Map Ref NY 109165; south following field boundaries to OS Map Ref NY 112159; west following the boundary of Bowness Plantation to a track at OS Map Ref NY 110159; south on the track to its junction with a footpath at OS Map Ref NY 109154; north west on the footpath to Ennerdale Water at OS Map Ref NY 106155; north and then south along the edge of Ennerdale Water to a footpath at OS Map Ref NY 091151; west following the footpath to Cragg Farm; west following forest boundary to OS Map Ref NY 072147; south following field boundaries to OS Map Ref NY 067142; north west following forest boundary to OS Map Ref NY 065145; south west following forest boundary to a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 063144; south west in a straight line to a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 062143; south on the minor road via Blakeley Raise and Cold Fell to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 047066; south east on a minor road to OS Map Ref NY 048065; north east along the minor road to where it crosses the River Calder at OS Map Ref NY 056068; north along the River Calder to OS Map Ref NY 062078; south east following the field boundary to its junction with the minor road north east of High Prior Scales (OS Map Ref NY 065076); east following the field boundary to where it meets a footpath at Farmery (OS Map Ref NY 076071); north east following the footpath to OS Map Ref NY 077072; south east along the boundary of Ponsonby Fell to OS Map Ref NY 076061; east to the west corner of Blengdale Forest (OS Map Ref NY 077062); south east following the edge of Blengdale Forest to OS Map Ref NY 080057; north east following the edge of Blengdale Forest to OS Map Ref NY 082062; follow the edge of Blengdale Forest to OS Map Ref NY 086058; across the River Bleng and through Blengdale Forest in a direct line to the edge of the Forest at OS Map Ref NY 089058; north and then east following the edge of Blengdale Forest to OS Map Ref NY 093060; south east along the field boundaries to a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 096053; north east along the field boundaries to where it meets Bolton Wood at OS Map Ref NY 097054; south following the boundary of Bolton Wood to where it meets a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 106045; east along the Gosforth/Nether Wasdale minor road to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 113047; north east on the minor road to the road junction at OSMap Ref NY 119049; north east on the minor road leading to Greendale and via Greendale to the edge of Wast Water at OS Map Ref NY 151054; south west following the edge of Wast Water and across where the River Irt leaves Wast Water at OS Map Ref NY 143038; west on a track to its junction with a footpath at Easthwaite (OS Map Ref NY 136034); south on the footpath to where it meets Latterbarrow Wood at OS Map Ref NY 135032; west along the north edge of the forest to a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 118027; south west along the minor road to Santon Bridge (OS Map Ref NY 111016); south east along a minor road to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref NY 136001; east along a minor road to its junction with another minor road at OS Map Ref SD 149998; south along minor road to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref SD 148991; south west along minor road to its junction with A595(T)); south on A595(T) to its junction with a minor road at Broad Oak; south following the minor road to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref SD 118921; south east on minor road to Fold Gate (OS Map Ref SD 119919); south following the fell wall to Whitbeck to where it meets the A595(T)) at OS Map Ref SD 121836; south on the road A595(T) to where it meets the fell wall at OS Map Ref SD 127825; follow fell wall to Grice Croft (OS Map Ref SD 171862); south east along track to Baystone Wood; north then south along boundary of Baystone Wood to Knott End at OS Map Ref SD 173866; south east along track to where it meets the A595(T) at OS Map Ref SD 179863; north east on the road A595(T) to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref SD 180864; north on the minor road via Broadgate and Cragg Hall to its junction with a minor roadat OS Map Ref SD 177894; east along the minor road to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref SD 186899; north west along the minor road to its junction with a track at Beckstones; north on the track via Ulpha Park to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref SD 187924; north east on minor road to Bobbin Mill Bridge (OS Map Ref SD 190926); north along track to Rainsbarrow Wood at OS Map Ref SD 190927; north east along boundary of Rainsbarrow Wood to where it meets the road at OS Map Ref SD 197934; north east on the minor road via The Crook and across the River Duddon to its junction with a minor road at OS Map Ref SD 213953.

The Area excludes any part of a road, track, footpath or river by reference to which its boundary is defined.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

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

The partial revocation reduces the area subject to the restrictions set out in the principal Order.

(1)

1985 c. 48; section 1 was amended by section 51 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16),and section 24was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 3 to that Act; section 1(2) defines “designating authority”and section 24(1) defines “the Ministers”.

(2)

S.I. 1991/6.