The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) Order 2017

Made: 10th January 2017

Laid before Parliament: 11th January 2017

Coming into force: 6th February 2017

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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 6 (advance notification of landing)

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Article 9 (presentation and display of documents)

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Article 18 (requirements for plant health movement documents)

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Article 19 (prohibitions on the introduction of plant pests and relevant material from the European Union)

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Article 24 (general provisions relating to plant passports)

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Article 36 (information as to compliance with notices)

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Article 39 (miscellaneous provisions for certain solanaceous species)

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

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

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Schedule 11 (notice of landing)

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Schedule 16 (potato brown rot)

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Signed

Gardiner of Kimble — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — 10th January 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.

[^f00006]: OJ No L 125, 13.5.2016, p. 16.

[^f00007]: OJ No L 187, 8.7.2006, p. 35, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/696 (OJ No L 120, 5.5.2016, p. 33).

Editorial notes

[^key-0d96343dc62765c7bafee4d283937a42]: Order revoked (E.) (14.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1517), reg. 1(1), Sch. 6