Scottish Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 71

PUBLIC HEALTH

CONTAMINATION OF FOOD

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2005

Made

15th February 2005

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

16th February 2005

Coming into force

17th February 2005

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:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 17th February 2005.

Revocation

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

RHONA BRANKIN

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

15th February 2005

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Strathclyde Region

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

Central Region

2.  The area of land within Stirling District and comprising that part of the Parish of Callander bounded as follows:–

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which forms part of Scots law only, is a partial revocation of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Radioactivity in Sheep) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/20).

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 and 2004/48.