The Plant Health (Forestry) Order 2005

Requirements for plant passports

20.—(1) Subject to paragraph (7) and article 21, the landing in or movement within Great Britain by any person of any relevant material of a description specified in Part A of Schedule 6 comprising EC transit goods or material consigned to Great Britain from another part of the European Community is prohibited, unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport.

(2) Subject to paragraph (7) and articles 21 and 22, the landing in or movement within Great Britain by any person of any relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 6 comprising EC transit goods or material consigned to Great Britain from another part of the European Community is prohibited, unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for Great Britain as a protected zone.

(3) No person shall move within Great Britain any relevant material, which if comprised of EC transit goods or relevant material consigned to Great Britain from another part of the European Community would be subject to paragraph (1), after the phytosanitary certificate accompanying it has been officially stamped in accordance with article 12(7)(a) unless it is accompanied by a plant passport.

(4) Subject to article 22, no person shall move within Great Britain any relevant material, which if comprised of EC transit goods or material consigned to Great Britain from another part of the European Community would be subject to paragraph (2), after the phytosanitary certificate accompanying it has been officially stamped in accordance with article 12(7)(a) unless it is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for Great Britain as a protected zone.

(5) Subject to article 21, no person shall consign from Great Britain to another part of the European Community any relevant material of a description specified in Part A of Schedule 7 unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport.

(6) Subject to article 21, no person shall consign from Great Britain to a protected zone in another part of the European Community any relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 7 unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for that protected zone.

(7) The prohibitions imposed on landing by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to relevant material in respect of which the Commissioners have agreed, pursuant to an agreement described in article 12(6), to carry out a plant health check.