The Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood (Amendment) Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 971

PLANT HEALTH

The Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood (Amendment) Order 1988

Made

27th May 1988

Laid before Parliament

7th June 1988

Coming into force

28th June 1988

The Forestry Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 3(1), (2) and (4) of the Plant Health Act 1967(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood (Amendment) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 28th June 1988.

Amendment of the Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood Order 1982

2.  The Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood Order 1982(2) shall be further amended by substituting for the Schedule thereto (areas in respect of which the movement of spruce wood is restricted) the following Schedule—

Article 3

“SCHEDULE AREAS IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE MOVEMENT OF SPRUCE WOOD IS RESTRICTED

Column 1	Column 2
Counties	Those parts of the counties within which restrictions apply
Avon	That part of the county which lies to the north of the southern boundary of the M4.
Cheshire	That part of the county which lies to the west of the eastern boundary of the M6.
Clwyd Dyfed Gloucestershire	} The whole county.
Greater Manchester	That part of the county which comprises the district of Wigan.
Gwent Gwynedd Hereford and Worcester Lancashire Merseyside Mid Glamorgan	} The whole county.
North Yorkshire	That part of the county which comprises the district of Craven.
Powys Shropshire South Glamorgan	} The whole county.
Staffordshire	That part of the county which comprises the districts of Cannock Chase, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent and South Staffordshire.
West Glamorgan	The whole county.
West Midlands	That part of the county which comprises the districts of Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.”

Revocation

3.  The Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood (Amendment) Order 1986(3) is hereby revoked.

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Forestry Commissioners is hereunto affixed on 27th May 1988.

L.S.

P. J. Clarke

Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Restriction on Movement of Spruce Wood Order 1982 by adding to the list of areas in respect of which the movement of spruce wood is restricted the remaining parts of the counties of Dyfed and Gwynedd not included in the previous Order and the county of West Glamorgan.

(1)

1967 c. 8; section 3(1) and (2) was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8(1) and (3); section 3(4) was substituted by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), section 42. The powers conferred by section 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967 are conferred on “a competent authority”, which expression is defined in section 1(2), as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests, as the Forestry Commissioners.

(2)

S.I. 1982/1457, the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/242 and 1986/476.

(3)

S.I. 1986/476.