The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Contamination of Feeding Stuff) (England) (No. 4) Order 1989

PART II — APPLICATION OF CONTROLS IN RELATION TO SHEEP AND GOATS AND CERTAIN THINGS DERIVED THEREFROM

SCHEDULE 2 — ORDERS WHICH ARE REVOKED BY THIS ORDER

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 1st December 1989.

Trumpington — Minister of State Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order consolidates with amendments the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Contamination of Feeding Stuff) (England) (No. 3) Order 1989, as amended. It contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of lead into imported animal feeding stuff.

The Order designates certain farms, holdings, agricultural and other premises in England within which certain activities are prohibited (articles 3, 4 and 7 and Schedule 1). Movement of cattle, sheep and goats and food from any of these areas is controlled (articles 5 and 7) and certain other restrictions extend throughout the United Kingdom (articles 6 and 7). Provision is made for certain exceptions to the restrictions in the Order (article 8).

This Order makes the following changes of substances–

• (a) further farms, holdings and premises (shown in italics in the Schedule) are designated, certain other farms, holdings and premises are removed from the designated area and some corrections are made to the description of areas already designated (article and Schedule 1);

• (b) the prohibition in the designated area on preparing or processing for supply food derived from cattle is limited to cattle that were in the designated area on or after 7th November 1989 (article 4(b));

• (c) makes further exceptions to the restrictions in articles 6(a) and (b) and 7(1) of the Order (article 8(3) (5) and (6)).

Under section 21 of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 the penalty for contravening an emergency prohibition is–

• (a) on summary conviction, a fine of an amount not exceeding the statutory maximum (at present £2,000);

• (b) on conviction an indictment, on unlimited fine, or imprisonment for a term of not more than two years, or both.

Powers of enforcement in relation to emergency prohibitions are conferred by section 4 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1985 Act. Obstruction of enforcement officers is an offence under paragraph 10 of that Schedule.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 48; see the definition of “designating authority” in section 1(2) and “the Ministers” in section 24(1).

[^f00002]: 1958 c. 47.

[^f00003]: 1974 c. 3.