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(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No.4) Order 1991 and shall come into force at 16.00 hours on 5th July 1991.
(2) In this Order “bivalve mollusc” means bivalve molluscs of the class of lamellabranchia, and “relevant time” means one minute past midnight on 5th July 1991.
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In the opinion of the Secretary of State, bivalve molluscs in the area designated in article 3 below may be affected by the toxin which causes Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning in human beings and are likely to create a hazard to human health if they are consumed.
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The area described in the Schedule to this Order is hereby designated for the purposes of Part I of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985.
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No person shall fish for or take any bivalve molluscs in the designated area.
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No person shall move any bivalve molluscs out of the designated area.
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No person shall in the United Kingdom or in United Kingdom waters–
(a) use any bivalve molluscs taken out of the designated area after the relevant time in the preparation or processing for supply of food and anything from which food could be derived,
(b) land any bivalve molluscs which were in waters in the designated area after the relevant time,
(c) supply, or have in possession for supply, any bivalve molluscs which were in the designated area after the relevant time,
(d) supply, or have in possession for supply, any food or anything from which food could be derived in the preparation or processing of which anything was used in contravention of sub-paragraph (a) of this article,
(e) feed to any creature a feeding stuff in the preparation or processing of which anything was used in contravention of sub-paragraph (a) of this article.
P.S. Collings
Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
5th July 1991
SCHEDULE
Article 3

That area of the sea including part of the Inner Sound lying to the east of the Islands of Rona and Raasay in Skye and Lochalsh District below mean high water springs and bounded by a straight line extending from a point on the line of the mean high water springs at Red Point at 57deg; 38.4'N latitude and 5° 49.1'W longitude in Ross and Cromarty District in a south westerly direction to a point on the line of the mean high water springs at the northern point of the Island of Rona at 57° 34.88'N latitude and 5° 57.5'W longitude then in a southerly direction along the line of the mean high water springs along the eastern shore of the Island of Rona to Garbh Eilean then by a straight line extending in a southerly direction to Rubha Ard Ghlaisen on the Island of Raasay and then along the line of the mean high water springs along the eastern shore of the Island of Raasay to Rubha na Leac at 57° 22.25'N latitude and 5° 59.55'W longitude then by a straight line extending in a north easterly direction to a point of the line of the mean high water springs at Rubha na Guailne at 57° 26.5'N latitude and 5° 51'W longitude on the Applecross Peninsula then in a northerly direction along the line of the mean high water springs along the western shore of the Applecross Peninsula to Rubha na Fearn and then in a south easterly and easterly direction along the line of the mean high water springs along the southern shore of Loch Torridon, along the western, southern and eastern shore of Loch Shieldaig and along the southern and eastern shores of Upper Loch Torridon, and then in a westerly and north westerly direction along the line of the mean high water springs along the northern shores of Upper Loch Torridon, Loch Diabaig and Loch Torridon to the point of beginning at Red Point.
