The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2017

Made: 4th December 2017

Laid before Parliament: 8th December 2017

Coming into force: 1st January 2018

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Citation 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 3 (interpretation of Part 2)

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Article 9 (presentation and display of documents)

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Article 14 (power of an officer for Revenue and Customs)

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Article 17 (approved places of inspection)

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

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Schedule 2 (relevant material which may not be introduced into or moved within England if that material is carrying or infected with plant pests)

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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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Schedule 8 (Swiss plant passports)

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Signed

Gardiner of Kimble — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 4th December 2017

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 8; section 2 was amended by paragraph 8(2)(a) of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Part 1 of the table in paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2) and S.I. 1990/2371, 2011/1043. Section 3(1) was amended by paragraph 8(2)(a) and (b) of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 and S.I. 2011/1043. The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1) are conferred on a “competent authority”, which is defined in section 1(2). Section 1(2) provides that the Secretary of State is the competent authority for England otherwise than as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests.

[^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) and amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) and S.I. 2007/1388.

[^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.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2015/610, amended by S.I. 2015/1827, 2016/104, 2017/8.

[^f00006]: OJ No L 335, 7.12.2012, p. 49.

[^f00007]: OJ No L 31, 4.2.2017, p. 29.

[^f00008]: The latest published version is available from the IPPC Secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AGDI, Viale Delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy and at https://www.ippc.int/en/core-activities/standards-setting/ispms/.

[^f00009]: S.I. 2015/1953.

[^f00010]: OJ No L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2016/2339 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 354, 23.12.2016, p. 32).

[^f00011]: OJ No L 125, 13.5.2016, p. 16, as amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/801 (OJ No L 120, 11.5.2017, p. 26).

Editorial notes