S.I. No. 16/1951 - Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950 (Shellfish Controlled Areas) Order, 1951.


S.I. No. 16 of 1951.

FOOD HYGIENE REGULATIONS, 1950 (SHELLFISH CONTROLLED AREAS) ORDER, 1951.

The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Article 55 of the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950 ( S.I. No. 205 of 1950 ) hereby orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950 (Shellfish Controlled Areas) Order, 1951.

2. This Order shall come into operation on 1st day of February, 1951.

3. Each of the areas specified in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared to be a controlled area for the purposes of Part VI of the Food Hygiene Regulations, 1950.

SCHEDULE.

CONTROLLED AREAS.

(a) The portion of Galway Bay and the adjoining inlets situated on the landward side of a straight line, from Rinville Point in the townland of Rinville to Seaweed Point, in the townland of Knockacarragh, both in the County of Galway.

(b) The portion of the sea lying to the west of a straight line from the point on the sea-shore north-east of Dundalk, known as Giles Quay, in the County of Louth to the point on the sea-shore known as Benhead, in the County of Meath.

(c) The portion of the sea between a straight line, drawn from the landing place east of Saint Andrew's Church in the townland of Drummullagh, in the County of Louth, to the perch on the rock in the sea known as " The Black Rock," and a straight line drawn from the said perch on the said rock in a south-westerly direction to the shore of the said County.

(d) Carlingford Harbour inside a straight line drawn through the two seaward ends of the piers.

(e) The portion of Tramore Bay lying to the north of a straight line drawn from the seaward end of Great Newtown Head on the west to the seaward end of Brownstown Head on the east.

(f) The portion of Tralee Bay east of a line drawn due south across the Bay from Fenit Pier.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twentieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-one.

NOËL C. BROWNE,

Minister for Health.