The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) Order 2015

Made: 22nd October 2015

Laid before Parliament: 27th October 2015

Coming into force: 20th November 2015

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Title and commencement

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Amendment of the Plant Health (England) Order 2015

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Article 2 (general interpretation)

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Article 22 (exceptions from certain prohibitions and requirements)

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Article 28 (conditions for maintaining registration as a plant trader)

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Article 42 (notification of the presence or suspected presence of certain plant pests)

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Article 46 (offences)

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Schedule 1 (plant pests which may not be introduced into or spread within England)

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Schedule 3 (relevant material which may not be introduced into England if that material originates in certain third countries)

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Schedule 4 (restrictions on the introduction into and movement within England of relevant material)

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Schedule 5 (relevant material from a third country for which a phytosanitary certificate may be required)

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Schedule 6 (prohibitions on the introduction into or movement within England of relevant material without a plant passport)

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Schedule 7 (prohibitions on the consignment of relevant material to another part of the European Union without a plant passport)

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Signed

George Eustice — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 22nd October 2015

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c.8. Sections 2 and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8 and by S.I. 2011/1043, article 6(1). Section 2(2) was amended by the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c.2), Schedule 4, paragraph 12. Section 2(3) was inserted by S.I. 1990/2371, Schedule 1, paragraph 1. The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 are conferred on a “competent authority”, which is defined in section 1(2). Section 1(2) was amended by article 4(1) of, and paragraph 43 of Schedule 2 to, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/753). Section 1(2), as amended, defines the competent authority for England and Scotland 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, in so far as they were not exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

[^f00003]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51).

[^f00004]: Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).

[^f00005]: S.I. 2015/610.

[^f00006]: OJ No L 125, 21.5.2015, p36.

[^f00007]: OJ No L 146, 11.6.2015, p16.

Editorial notes