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This Order may be cited as the Export of Sheep (Prohibition) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 17th February 1987.
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(1) No person shall export from Great Britain to a member State any sheep to which this Order applies.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below, this Order applies to any sheep which—
(a) was moved from a place situated in an area which is a designated area for the purposes of Part I of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 by virtue of—
(i) article 3 of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) (No. 2) Order 1986;
(ii) article 3 of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 1986; or
(iii) article 3 of the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (No. 10) Order 1986,
in accordance with the terms of a consent under section 2(1) of that Act (consent to the doing of things prohibited by an emergency order under section 1 of that Act) which required that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein; or
(b) was moved from such an area in contravention of a prohibition on its movement imposed by an order made under section 1(1) of that Act (which empowers the making of emergency Orders) which applied to that sheep at the time it was moved.
(3) This Order applies to a sheep only for so long as the area from which it has been moved remains a designated area for the purposes of any of the Orders referred to in paragraph (2)(a) above.
(4) Paragraph (2)(a) above shall not apply in the case of any sheep which has been examined and marked by an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by the appropriate Minister.
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This Order shall be executed and enforced by local authorities.
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The Export of Sheep (Prohibition) (No. 2) Order 1986 is hereby revoked.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was hereunto affixed on 15th February 1987.
Michael Jopling
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
