Food and Environment Protection Act 1985

Section 1.

SCHEDULE 1 U.K. Emergency Prohibitions

Part I U.K. Activities that may be Prohibited in a Designated Area

1 U.K. An emergency order may prohibit any of the following in the designated area—

(a) agricultural activities;

(b) the gathering or picking of wild plants;

(c) the slaughter of creatures;

(d) fishing for and taking fish; and

(e) the preparation and processing for supply to purchasers or others of food and anything from which food could be derived.

Part II U.K. Movements of Food Etc. that may be Prohibited

2 U.K. An emergency order may prohibit the movement of food or anything from which food could be derived—

(a) into or out of the designated area; or

(b) from one place to another within that area.

Part III U.K. Activities that may be Prohibited Throughout the United Kingdom

3 U.K. An emergency order may prohibit any of the following F1 . . .—

(a) the use of anything taken from the designated area after a time specified in the order in the preparation or processing for supply to purchasers or others of food or anything from which food could be derived;

(b) the landing of fish or other forms of aquatic produce which were taken from waters in the designated area after a time so specified;

(c) the slaughter of creatures that were in the designated area after a time so specified;

(d) the supply, or the possessing for supply, to purchasers or others of any food, or anything from which food could be derived, which was in the designated area after a time so specified;

(e) the feeding to creatures of any feeding stuff—

(i) that was prepared or processed in contravention of a prohibition under paragraph 1(e) above;

(ii) that was taken from the designated area after a time specified in the order; or

(iii) in the preparation or processing of which anything was used in contravention of a prohibition under sub-paragraph (a) above;

(f) the supply, or the possessing for supply, to purchasers or others of any food or anything from which food could be derived—

(i) that was prepared or processed in contravention of a prohibition under paragraph 1(e) above; or

(ii) in the preparation or processing of which anything was used in contravention of a prohibition under sub-paragraph (a) above.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 repealed (30.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1756, art. 2 Sch. para. 10(12) (with art. 8); S.I. 1998/3178

[F2 4 U.K. A prohibition of a kind specified in paragraph 3 above shall apply in every part of the United Kingdom and United Kingdom waters.]

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 4 inserted (30.6.1999) by 1999/1756, art. 2, Sch. 10(13) (with art. 8); S.I. 1998/3178