Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1984
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1984/839 |
| Year | 1984 |
1984 No. 839
PLANT HEALTH
The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 198419thJune 1984
29thJune 1984
19thJuly 1984
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England, the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1), (2) and (4) of the Plant Health Act 1967(a), and now vested in them(b), and of every other power enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following order:—
Title, extent and commencement
1. This order may be cited as the Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1984, shall apply to Great Britain and shall come into operation on 19th July 1984.
Amendment of principal order
2. The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 1980(c) shall be amended as follows:—
(1) Immediately after paragraph (e) of Article 5 (prohibition of the landing of certain plants, plant products, plant pests and soil) there shall be added the following paragraph—
"(f) any plant of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris, L.) other than monogerm sugar beet seed which has been cleaned free from soil and other debris and has been processed to remove the outer layers of the perianth;".
(2) Article 17 (licences) shall be re-numbered paragraph (1) of Article 17 and after that paragraph there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
"(2) An application for a licence to land any plant of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris, L.) in Great Britain notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (f) of Article 5, shall be refused only if the appropriate Minister considers that refusal is necessary for the purpose of preventing the introduction
(a) 1967 c. 8; sections 2(1), 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8.
(b) In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.
(c) S.I. 1980/420, to which there is an amendment not relevant to this Order.
into, or the spread in, Great Britain of Rhizomania disease caused by beet nectrotic yellow vein virus, and the conditions imposed by such a licence shall be limited to those which the appropriate Minister considers necessary for that purpose.".
(3) After Article 20 (offences) there shall be inserted the following Article—
"21. Article 5(f) and Article 17(2) shall cease to have effect on 30th June 1985."
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