The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 527

Wildlife

The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019

Made

at 1 00 p.m. on 7th March 2019

Laid before Parliament

8th March 2019

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

at 4 00 p.m. on 7th March 2019

Coming into force

1st October 2019

The Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”)(1), and by section 22(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(2).

The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the 1972 Act in relation to the environment(3), and the Welsh Ministers have been designated for those purposes in relation to the prevention and remedy of environmental damage(4).

This Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act and it appears to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references to the list of invasive alien species of Union concern adopted by the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species(5) to be construed as references to that list as amended from time to time.

(1)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. It was amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 and by S.I. 2007/1388.

(2)

1981 c. 69. Section 22(5) was amended by section 25(5) of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7).

(3)

S.I. 2008/301.

(4)

S.I. 2014/1890.

(5)

OJ No. L317, 4.11.2014, p. 35.