Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order partially revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No.4) Order 1995 (“the (No.4) Order”)and revokes in their entirety the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Orders 1995 noted in Schedule 2 which prohibited—

(a)fishing for or taking shellfish within the areas designated in the Schedules to those Orders (article 4);

(b)movement of such shellfish out of those areas (article 5); and

(c)landing, using in the preparation or processing for supply of food of, supplying and other specified activities in relation to, such shellfish from the designated areas within the United Kingdom (article 6).

The effect of this Order is to remove the prohibition from fishing for, taking, moving, landing, using in food production and supplying the shellfish affected by each of the Orders, in the case of the (No. 4) Order from the area designated in Schedule 1 to this Order and in the case of the Orders listed in Schedule 2 from the whole of the areas specified in those Orders.