2002 No. 296
PLANT HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Treatment of Spruce Bark (Amendment) Order 2002

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Forestry Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 3(1) to (4) of the Plant Health Act 19671 as read with section 20 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 19722, hereby make the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement

1.

This Order may be cited as the Treatment of Spruce Bark (Amendment) Order 2002, shall apply to England and Wales and shall come into force on 5th March 2002.

Amendment of the Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 1993

2.

The Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 19933 shall be amended by substituting for the Schedule to that Order the Schedule to this Order.

3.

The Treatment of Spruce Bark (Amendment) Order 19944 is revoked.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Forestry Commissioners is hereunto affixed on 12th February 2002.

Frank Strang
Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners

SCHEDULE

Article 2

“SCHEDULEAREAS WITHIN WHICH SPRUCE BARK MAY NOT BE MOVED UNLESS IT HAS BEEN TREATED

Article 3(1)

1.

Wales.

2.

The following counties, districts and unitary authorities of England:

Birmingham

Liverpool

Tameside

Blackburn

Manchester

The Wrekin

Blackpool

Oldham

Trafford

Bolton

Rochdale

Walsall

Bury

Salford

Warrington

Cheshire

Sandwell

Wigan

Coventry

Sefton

Wirral

Dudley

Shropshire

Wolverhampton

Halton

Solihull

Worcestershire

Herefordshire

St Helens

Knowsley

Stockport

Lancashire

Stoke-on-Trent

3.

The following parts of counties, districts and unitary authorities in England—

(a)

Derby City: that part of the unitary authority which lies to the south of the northern boundary of the A52(T) road together with that part of the unitary authority which lies to the south of the northern boundary of the A6(T) road;

(b)

Derbyshire: that part of the county which lies to the south of the northern boundary of the A52(T) road and that part of the county which lies to the south of the northern boundary of the A6(T) road;

(c)

Gloucestershire: that part of the county west of the eastern boundary of the Fosse Way Roman road;

(d)

Leicestershire: that part of the county which lies to the west of the eastern boundary of the Fosse Way Roman road, together with that part of the county which lies to the west of the eastern boundary of the B4114 road, and that part of the county which lies to the west of the eastern boundary of the M1 motorway;

(e)

North Yorkshire: that part of the county which comprises the district of Craven;

(f)

South Gloucestershire: that part of the unitary authority which lies to the north of the southern boundary of the M4 motorway;

(g)

Warwickshire: that part of the county which lies to the west of the eastern boundary of the Fosse Way Roman road;

(h)

Wiltshire: that part of the county which lies to the north of the southern boundary of the M4 motorway and that part of the county which lies to the west of the eastern boundary of the Fosse Way Roman road.”

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 1993 by substituting a new Schedule describing the areas in which the movement of spruce bark is prohibited unless treated against the tree pest Dendroctonus micans Kugelann (the Great Spruce Bark Beetle) (article 2).

The spread of Dendroctonus micans is also controlled by the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993 (S.I.1993/1283, amended by S.I.1994/3094, 1995/1989, 1996/751, 1998/2206 and 3109, 2001/295 and 2002/295).

This Order also revokes the Order (S.I.1994/3093) which previously amended the Schedule to the Treatment of Spruce Bark Order 1993 (article 3).

No Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared in respect of this Order.