The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2012

Made: 5th December 2012

Laid before Parliament: 6th December 2012

Coming into force: 7th December 2012

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Title and commencement

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Amendment of the Plant Health (England) Order 2005

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Signed

de Mauley — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 5th December 2012

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 8. Sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8. The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 are conferred on a “competent authority”, which is defined in section 1(2), as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests, as the Forestry Commissioners and otherwise, for England, as the Secretary of State.

[^f00002]: The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Health Act 1967 were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) Order (No.1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272). Those functions were transferred from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). The remaining functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

[^f00003]: S.I. 2005/2530, amended by S.I. 2006/2307; 2007/1893, 2950, 3133; 2008/2411, 2765; 2009/587; 2010/1510, 2962 and 2012/697, 2922.

[^f00004]: Paragraph (3) of article 19 was inserted by S.I. 2008/2411, article 2(1) and (3).

[^f00005]: Part B of Schedule 4 was amended by S.I. 2011/1043, article 4(1); there are other amendments to that Part, but none is relevant.

Editorial notes

[^key-c40aa67b89a2c840d44cf155db58a276]: Order revoked (1.7.2015) by The Plant Health (England) Order 2015 (revoked) 2015 (S.I. 2015/610), art. 1(b), Sch. 18