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(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No.5) Order 1991 and shall come into force at 18.00 hours on 12th 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 12th 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.
3 
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.
4 
No person shall fish for or take any bivalve molluscs in the designated area.
5 
No person shall move any bivalve molluscs out of the designated area.
6 
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.
L.P. Hamilton
Secretary, Scottish Office
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
12th July 1991
SCHEDULE
Article 3

That area of the sea lying to the north east of a straight line from Rubha na h-Easgainne at 57° 7.6'N latitude and 6° 5.1'W longitude on the Strathaird Peninsula, Island of Skye, extending in a south easterly direction to Rubha Caradal at 57° 4.3'N latitude and 6° 1.2'W longitude on the Sleat Peninsula, Island of Skye, and within the line of the mean high water springs along the northern shore of the Sleat Peninsula, the shores of Loch Eishort and Loch Slapin and along the southern shore of the Strathaird Peninsula, to the point of beginning at Rubha na h-Easgainne.
