This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2004/2040 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.Order made by the Secretary of State, laid before Parliament under section 1(8) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament within twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which the Order was made, subject to extension for periods of dissolution, prorogation or adjournment for more than four days.
Statutory Instruments
2004 No. 2123
PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND
CONTAMINATION OF FOOD
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Scallops) (Irish Sea) (Amendment) Order 2004
Made
12th August 2004
Laid before Parliament
13th August 2004
Coming into force
14th August 2004
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and (2) and 24(3) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985( 1 ) being of the opinion that there exist or may exist circumstances which are likely to create a hazard to human health through human consumption of food, and that in consequence food which is derived or may be in the future derived from scallops in the area described in the Schedule set out in the following Order is, or may be, or may become, unsuitable for human consumption, makes the following Order:
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Scallops) (Irish Sea) (Amendment) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 14 th August 2004.
Amendment
2. —(1) The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Scallops) (Irish Sea) Order 2004( 2 ) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) For article 4 (activities prohibited in the designated area) there shall be substituted the following article —
“ 4. No person shall fish for or take any scallops in the designated area. ” .
(3) For the Schedule there shall be substituted the following Schedule —
“ SCHEDULE DESIGNATED AREA
That area of the sea enclosed by a line starting at a point where the southern boundary of the Scottish Zone crosses 4°30' West longitude; then in a generally north–easterly direction along that boundary of the Scottish Zone to the point where it crosses 4° West longitude; then south to a point at 54°30' North latitude 4° West longitude; then west to 54°30' North latitude 4°30' West longitude; then north to the point of beginning. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Stephen Ladyman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
12th August 2004
1985 c. 48 ; section 1(2) defines “designating authority”; section 1(1) and (2) was amended by section 51(1) and (2)(a) and (b) of the Food Safety Act 1990 ( 1990 c. 16) ; section 1(2) was further amended by the Scotland Act (Modification of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/1756 ) and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 ( 1999 c. 28) .