The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/1155
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Amendment (No. 2) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 4th June 1990.

Section 2 Partial revocation and amendment

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) Order 1989 is revoked to the extent that it imposes prohibitions on–

(a) the slaughter of any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 on or before 14th January 1990 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark; and

(b) the supply or having in possession for supply of meat, or food containing meat, derived from any sheep described in paragraph (a) of this article,

and accordingly that Order is amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

Section 3 Partial revocation and amendment

In article 6, for paragraph (2), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:–

(2) Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of–

(a) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked;

(b) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or before 30th July 1989 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark;

(c) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or before 1st October 1989 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a green mark;

(d) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or before 14th January 1990 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark;

(e) any sheep which–

(i) was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a red mark, or

(ii) was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given on or after 15th January 1990 under section 2(1) of the said Act which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark,

and which in any case has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers.