1987 No. 1679

PLANT HEALTH

The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 1987

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England, the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1) and (2) of the Plant Health Act 19671, and now vested in them2, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1987, shall apply to Great Britain and shall come into force on 3rd October 1987.

Amendment of principal Order2

The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 19803 shall be amended as follows –

1

After paragraph (h) of article 5 (prohibition of landing of certain plants etc.) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

i

any raw vegetables, intended for consumption or processing, from plants of beets (Beta L.), carrot (Daucus L.), celery or celeriac(Apium L.), leek (Allium L.), turnip or swede, (Brassica L.) if the consignment contains more than 1% by weight of soil.

2

In Part IIIA of Schedule 2, in item 45(7), (soil tolerance in a consignment of potatoes), for “2%” there shall be substituted “1%”.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

John MacGregorMMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
James Douglas-HamiltonParliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office
Peter WalkerSecretary of State for Wales

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 1980 –

a

by prohibiting the landing in Great Britain of consignments of certain ©vegetables if they contain more than 1% by weight of soil, and

b

by reducing the soil tolerance in consignments of potatoes from 2% to 1% (article 2).