The Treatment of Spruce Bark (Amendment) Order 1994

Made: 1st December 1994

Laid before Parliament: 8th December 1994

Coming into force: 29th December 1994

The Forestry Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 2 and 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967[^f00001], as read with section 20 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Treatment of Spruce Bark (Amendment) Order 1994, shall apply to England and Wales and shall come into force on 29th December 1994.

Amendment of the Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 1993

2

The Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 1993[^f00003] shall be amended by substituting for the Schedule to that Order the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Signed

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Forestry Commissioners is hereunto affixed on

T J D Rollinson — Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners — 1st December 1994.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 1993 by substituting a new Schedule describing the areas in which the movement of spruce bark is prohibited unless treated against the tree pest Dendroctonus micans Kugelann (the Great Spruce Bark Beetle) (article 2).

The spread of Dendroctonus micans is also controlled by the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1283, amended by S.I. 1994/3094).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 8; sections 2(1), 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48). The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967 are conferred on “a competent authority”, which expression is defined in section 1(2), as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests, as the Forestry Commissioners.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 62.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1993/1282.