21.—(1) No person may knowingly plant or knowingly cause or permit to be planted—
(a)any contaminated susceptible material; or
(b)any possibly contaminated susceptible material.
(2) Where susceptible material or an object has been designated as contaminated or possibly contaminated under paragraph 20(1) or (5), a plant health inspector must serve a notice requiring that—
(a)in the case of contaminated susceptible material, the material be disposed of by destruction or by [F1an officially approved disposal method that ensures that there is no identifiable risk of Potato ring rot spreading];
(b)in the case of possibly contaminated susceptible material, the material be used or disposed of [F2 in a manner that ensures that there is no identifiable risk of Potato ring rot spreading];
(c)in the case of a contaminated object or a possibly contaminated object, the object be—
(i)disposed of by destruction; or
(ii)cleansed and disinfected so that there is no identifiable risk of Potato ring rot surviving or spreading.
(3) Anything cleansed and disinfected in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)(c)(ii) may no longer be treated as contaminated for the purposes of [F3this Part].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 2 para. 21(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(5)(a)(i)
F2Words in Sch. 2 para. 21(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(5)(a)(ii)
F3Words in Sch. 2 para. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(5)(b)
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 21 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)