The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) (Amendment) Order 2019

Made: 3rd September 2019

Laid before Parliament: 5th September 2019

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 5th September 2019

Coming into force: 30th September 2019

The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the 1972 Act in relation to the environment[^f00003], and the Welsh Ministers have been designated for those purposes in relation to the prevention and remedy of environmental damage[^f00004].

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) (Amendment) Order 2019, and comes into force on 30th September 2019.

Amendment of the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019

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• (1) The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019[^f00005] is amended as follows.

• (2) In article 1 (citation, commencement, extent and application), in paragraph (1), for “1st October 2019” substitute “1st December 2019”;

• (3) In article 43 (review: England), in paragraph (2), for “1st October 2024” substitute “1st December 2024”.

Signed

Gardiner of Kimble — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 3rd September 2019

Lesley Griffiths — Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, — one of the Welsh Ministers — 3rd September 2019

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/527) to change the date on which that Order comes into force, from 1st October 2019 to 1st December 2019. It also makes a consequential amendment to article 43 of the Order (review: England), to change the date by which the first report under that article needs to be made, from 1st October 2024 to 1st December 2024.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51), and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).

[^f00002]: 1981 c. 69; section 22(5) was amended by section 25(5) of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).

[^f00003]: S.I. 2008/301.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2014/1890.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2019/527.