The Plant Health (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2019 No. 151

Plant Health

The Plant Health (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019

Made

19th July 2019

Coming into operation

22nd July 2019

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs(1) makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2, 3 and 4(1) of the Plant Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967(2).

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as The Plant Health (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 and comes into operation on 22nd July 2019.

Amendment of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2018

2.  The Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2018(3) is amended as follows.

3.  In Schedule 4, in Part C, in item 29, in the third column, omit paragraph (c).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on 19th July 2019.

Legal seal

John Joe O’Boyle

A senior officer of the

Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018 No. 184).

It amends the technical requirements that must be satisfied when bringing into Northern Ireland certain plants, other than fruit or seeds, of Quercus L., intended for planting.

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.

(1)

The Ministry of Agriculture became known as the Department of Agriculture by virtue of section 7(5) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act (c.36), was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) and was renamed the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs by section 1 of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.)).

(2)

1967 c.28 (N.I.); sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by S.R. & O (N.I.) 1972 No. 351, article 3 and Schedule 2. Section 2(2) was amended by 1979 c.2 section 177(1) and Schedule 4, Part 11. Sections 2 and 3 were also amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I.2), Articles 15(2), 24 and Schedule.