The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2018

Made: 7th March 2018

Laid before Parliament: 8th March 2018

Coming into force: 1st April 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 6 (advance notification of landing)

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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 19A (notification of the landing of certain plants for planting)

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

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Schedule 8 (Swiss plant passports)

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Signed

Gardiner of Kimble — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — 7th March 2018

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 S.I. 2002/794.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2015/610; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2016/104, 2017/8, 2017/1220.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 31, 4.2.2017, p. 29.

[^f00005]: OJ No L 337, 19.12.2017, p. 60.

Editorial notes

[^key-1bbc27105b29c55d810a10ff2b1e4148]: 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, Sch. 6