Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1992 which prohibited—
(a)fishing for or taking scallops, defined as Queen Scallops (article 1), and fishing for or taking mussels within the area designated in the Schedule to that Order (article 4),
(b)movement of such scallops and mussels out of that area (article 5),
(c)landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such scallops and mussels from the designated area within the United Kingdom (article 6).
The effect of this Order is to remove completely the prohibition in fishing for, taking, moving, landing, using in food production and supplying Queen Scallops and mussels from Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands.