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(1) This Order may be cited as the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 12) Order 1991 and shall come into force at 16.00 hours on 13th September 1991.
(2) In this Order “green crab” means the species known as “carcinus maenas”; “velvet crab” means the species known as “liocarcinus puber”, and “relevant time” means one minute past midnight on 13th September 1991.
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In the opinion of the Secretary of State, green crabs or velvet crabs 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 green crabs or velvet crabs in the designated area.
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No person shall move any green crabs or velvet crabs out of the designated area.
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No person shall in the United Kingdom or in the United Kingdom waters—
(a) use any green crabs or velvet crabs 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 green crabs or velvet crabs which were in waters in the designated area after the relevant time;
(c) supply, or have in possession for supply, any green crabs or velvet crabs 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.
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The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 11) Order 1991 is hereby revoked.
E. C. Davison
Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
13th September 1991
SCHEDULE
Article 3

That area of the sea surrounding all the Orkney Islands and below the line of the mean high water springs on these Islands bounded as follows: on the North by a straight line extending in an easterly direction from a point at 59° 25'N latitude and 3° 30'W longitude to a point at 59° 25'N latitude and 2° 15'W longitude; then on the east by a straight line extending in a southerly direction from the last mentioned point to a point at 58° 43'N latitude and 2° 15'W longitude; then on the south by a straight line extending in a westerly direction from the last mentioned point to a point at 58° 43'N and 3° 30'W longitude; then on the west by a straight line extending in a northerly direction from the last mentioned point to the point of beginning at 59° 25'N latitude and 3° 30'W longitude.
