The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 2007

Year2007

2007 No. 3450

PLANT HEALTH

The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made 6th December 2007

Laid before Parliament 10th December 2007

Coming into force 31th December 2007

The Forestry Commissioners make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1), (2), (3) and (4) of the Plant Health Act 19671:

S-1 Title and commencement

Title and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 2007 and comes into force on 31st December 2007.

S-2 Amendments to the Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2004

Amendments to the Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2004

2.—(1) The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 20042is amended as follows.

(2) In article 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “susceptible bark”, replace the words after “Acer macrophyllumPursh.,” with “Aesculus californica(Spach) Nutt., Lithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) Rehd., Quercusspp. L. and Taxus brevifoliaNutt.”.

(3) In article 13 (offences)—

(a)

(a) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) substitute—

“(a)

“(a) subject to paragraph (1A), he contravenes or fails to comply with article 3, 4, 5(1) or 9(1);”; and

(b)

(b) after paragraph (1), insert—

S-1A

“1A Paragraph (1)(a) shall not apply where an article of any description is landed in Great Britain in contravention of a prohibition in this Order.”.

(4) In the Schedule, for the first column substitute—

“I. Susceptible material, other than susceptible wood and susceptible bark

Acer macrophyllum Pursh.

Acer pseudoplatanus L.

Adiantum aleuticum (Rupr.) Paris

Adiantum jordanii C. Muell.

Aesculus californica (Spach) Nutt.

Aesculus hippocastanum L.

Arbutus menziesii Pursch.

Arbutus unedo L.

Arctostaphylos spp. Adans

Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull

Castanea sativa Mill.

Fagus sylvatica L.

Frangula californica (Eschsch.) Gray

Frangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper

Fraxinus excelsior L.

Griselinia littoralis (Raoul)

Hamamelis virginiana L.

Heteromeles arbutifolia (Lindley) M. Roemer

Kalmia latifolia L.

Laurus nobilis L.

Leucothoe spp. D. Don

Lithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) Rehd.

Lonicera hispidula (Lindl.) Dougl. ex Torr. & Gray

Magnolia spp. L.

Michelia doltsopa Buch.-Ham. ex DC

Nothofagus obliqua (Mirbel) Blume

Osmanthus heterophyllus (G. Don) P. S. Green

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