Subordinate Legislation Committee, 31 Aug 1999

Meeting date: Tuesday, August 31, 1999

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Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (No. 4) (Scotland) Order 1999 (SSI 1999/23)

All these orders relate to shellfish poisoning matters and are covered in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of the legal briefing. We touched on them earlier. Can I take it that there is nothing on which we want to make any adverse comment?

I do not think that we want to make any adverse comment, but the explanatory letter attached to SSI 1999/23—order No. 4—mentions proposals to amend the Food and Environmental Protection Act 1985. We might wish to ask how that is to be done and over what time scale.

Thank you for that. Can we leave that for the clerk, Alasdair Rankin, to raise, either in one consolidated letter or in several? Presumably this will not be the end of the shellfish orders.