
1 
This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Amendment No. 2 Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st June 1988.
2 
The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) Order 1987 is revoked to the extent that it imposes prohibitions on—
(a) the movement into the designated area of a sheep which has previously been moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 which consent did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein; and
(b) the slaughter of a sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 10th January 1988, which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark; and
(c) the supply or having in possession for supply of meat, or food containing meat, derived from a sheep described in paragraph (b) of this article,and accordingly that Order is further amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
3 

(1) In article 5, for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“
(3) Paragraph (2) 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 Act, which did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein; or
(b) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Act, which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a red mark.”.
(2) 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 to a market in accordance with a consent given under section 2(1) of the Act which consent did not require that the sheep to which it applies should be marked in a manner specified therein;
(b) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 10th January 1988 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a blue mark;
(c) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 26th July 1987 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark;
(d) any sheep which was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) on or before 27th September 1987 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with a green mark; or
(e) any sheep which— 
(i) was moved from any place in accordance with a consent given under the said section 2(1) 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 such a consent given on or after 11th January 1988 which consent was subject to the condition that the sheep to which it applies should be marked with an apricot mark,
and which, in either case, has been examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised in that behalf by one of the Ministers.”.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 26th May 1988. 
John MacGregor
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
