Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1679

The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 1987

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1987 No. 1679

PLANT HEALTH

The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 1987

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) and (2) of the Plant Health Act 1967^[1] , and now vested in them^[2] , and of all other powers 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 1987, shall apply to Great Britain and shall come into force on 3rd October 1987.

Amendment of principal Order
    2.    The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 1980^[3] shall be amended as follows -

    (1)  After paragraph (h) of article 5 (prohibition of landing of certain plants etc.) there shall be inserted the following paragraph -
"(i) any raw vegetables, intended for consumption or processing, from plants of beets (Beta L.), carrot (Daucus L.), celery or celeriac(Apium L.), leek (Allium L.), turnip or swede, (Brassica L.) if the consignment contains more than 1% by weight of soil." .



    (2)  In Part IIIA of Schedule 2, in item 45(7), (soil tolerance in a consignment of potatoes), for "2%" there shall be substituted "1%" .

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

John MacGregorM

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

22nd September 1987.

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office

22nd September 1987P

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

22nd September 1987

This Order amends the Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 1980 -
(a) by prohibiting the landing in Great Britain of consignments of certain ©vegetables if they contain more than 1% by weight of soil, and

(b) by reducing the soil tolerance in consignments of potatoes from 2% to 1% (article 2).

[1] 1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and schedule 4, paragraph 8. back

[2] In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272. back

[3] S.I. 1980/420; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/873, 1230, 1986/195, 1135. back