The Plant Health (Amendment) (England) Order 2019

Made: at 4.57 p.m. on 15th July 2019

Laid before Parliament: at 6.00 p.m. on 15th July 2019

Coming into force: at 7.00 p.m. on 15th July 2019

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Citation, commencement, extent and application

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Amendment of the Plant Health (Forestry) Order 2005

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Amendment of the Plant Health (England) Order 2015

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Amendment of the Plant Health (England) (Amendment) Order 2019

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Amendment of the Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) (England) Order 2019

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Signed

Gardiner of Kimble — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — At 4.57 p.m. on 15th July 2019

The official seal of the Forestry Commissioners

Richard Barker — Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners — At 3.40 p.m. on 15th July 2019

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 Forestry Commissioners are the competent authority for England as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests and the Secretary of State is the competent authority otherwise for England.

[^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. 2005/2517; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2014/2420, 2017/1178, 2018/1048, 2019/1075.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2015/610; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2017/1220, 2018/ 910, 2019/1070.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2019/1070.

[^f00006]: S.I. 2019/1075.

Editorial notes

[^key-4b00724376cdafda52d40d65064ecd18]: Order revoked (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