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Title Year and Number Legislation Type Review Date
The Official Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025 2025/13 UK Statutory Instruments
The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment and Legislative Functions) Regulations 2022 2022/1322 UK Statutory Instruments
The Pests of Plants (Authorisations) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 2022/1020 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 2022/836 UK Statutory Instruments
The Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022 2022/739 UK Statutory Instruments
The Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 2022/484 UK Statutory Instruments
The Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2021 2021/641 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health etc. (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 2021/625 UK Statutory Instruments
The Official Controls, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 2021/426 UK Statutory Instruments
The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 2020/1388 UK Statutory Instruments
The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 2020/381 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 2019/1257 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health (Amendment) (England) Order 2019 2019/1128 UK Statutory Instruments 30/06/2020
The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) Order 2019 2019/1070 UK Statutory Instruments 30/06/2020
The Animal Health, Alien Species in Aquaculture and Invasive Non-native Species (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/813 UK Statutory Instruments
The Import of and Trade in Animals and Animal Products (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/795 UK Statutory Instruments
The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/782 UK Statutory Instruments
The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 2019/588 UK Statutory Instruments
The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019 2019/527 UK Statutory Instruments 01/10/2024
The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 2018/1410 UK Statutory Instruments
The Spring Traps Approval (England) Order 2018 2018/1190 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No. 5) Order 2018 2018/1136 UK Statutory Instruments 30/06/2020
The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 2018/1120 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2018 2018/910 UK Statutory Instruments 30/06/2020
The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) Order 2016 2016/104 UK Statutory Instruments
The Plant Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 2015/1996 UK Statutory Instruments
The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 2015/1782 UK Statutory Instruments
The Importation of Animal Products and Poultry Products Order 1980 1980/14 UK Statutory Instruments
The Importation of Embryos, Ova and Semen Order 1980 1980/12 UK Statutory Instruments
The Rabies (Control) Order 1974 1974/2212 UK Statutory Instruments