The Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006

Interpretation of Part 2

3.  In this Part—

“approved place of inspection” means a place of destination of relevant material approved by the National Assembly under article 17;

“Customs Code” means Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92(1) establishing the Community Customs Code;

“customs document” means a document required by the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for placing relevant material under one of the procedures specified in Article 4(16)(a) and (d) to (g) of the Customs Code;

“electronic communications” has the same meaning as in the Electronic Communications Act 2000(2);

“identity check” means an examination of a consignment of relevant material for the purposes of determining whether it corresponds to its description in the documents that accompany it being an examination of that consignment—

(a)

in its entirety; or

(b)

on the basis of one or more representative samples from the consignment or from each lot forming part of the consignment;

“working day”, in relation to the notice requirements in articles 6(3)(b)(ii) and 16(3) and the period for which material may be detained under article 14(1), means a period of twenty-four hours which is not a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday in Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(3); and

“working hour” means a period of one hour during a working day.

(1)

OJ No. L 302, 19.10.1992, p.1.

(2)

2000 c. 7; the definition of electronic communication in section 15(1) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), section 406(1) and Schedule 17, paragraph 158.

(3)

1971 c. 80.