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The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (Revocation) Order 1991

Type Statutory-Instrument

Publication 1991-06-20

State In force

Department Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament

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Made: 20th June 1991

Laid before Parliament: 20th June 1991

Coming into force: 21st June 1991

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1(1) and (2) and section 24(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (Revocation) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 21st June 1991.

Revocation

2

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1991[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the MInister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 20th June 1991.

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

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order revokes the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) Order 1991 which contains emergency prohibitions relating to scallops. The Order created prohibitions on the taking and use of scallops as scallops in an area of the North Sea had been affected by a toxin which causes Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in human beings.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 48; section 1 was amended by section 51 of the Food Safety Act 1990 (c. 16), and section 24 was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 3 to that Act.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/1235.

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