The Plant Health (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made: 14th April 2003

Coming into operation: 10th May 2003

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development[^f00001], in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 3(1) of the Plant Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003, and shall come into operation on 10th May 2003.

Amendment of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993

2

Schedule 13 to the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993[^f00003] shall be amended by deleting from paragraph (e) in the definition of District No. 1 (County Down-Armagh) the following townlands:

• Ballaghanery, Ballaghanery Upper, Ballinran, Ballinran Upper, Ballykeel, Ballymartin, Ballyveagh Beg, Ballyveagh Beg Upper, Ballyveagh More, Ballyveagh More Upper, Brackenagh East, Brackenagh East Upper, Brackenagh West, Brackenagh West Upper, Carrigenagh Upper, Glasdrumman, Maghereagh, Moneydorragh Beg, Moneydorragh More, Moneydorragh More Upper, Mullartown.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 14th April 2003.

David Small — Senior Officer of the — Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993 by removing certain townlands previously scheduled as safety zones to protect against spread of potato wart disease. The Order lifts restrictions on the growing of potatoes in the former safety zones as provided in Article 2.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Art. 3(4)

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 28 (N.I.) as amended by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No. 351 Art. 3 and Sch. 2, s177(1) and Sch. 4 Pt. LI; and S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 15(2) and S.I. 1975/1038 (N.I. 8) Art. 11(2)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1993 No. 256 as amended by S.R. 1994 No. 28, S.R. 1995 No. 164, No. 250 and No. 494, S.R. 1996 No. 204 and No. 249, S.R. 1997 No. 110 and No. 397, S.R. 1998 No. 16, No. 146 and No. 315, S.R. 1999 No. 24, S.R. 2000 No. 126, S.R. 2001 No. 188 and No. 437, S.R. 2002 No. 273