http://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1805/introduction/madeThe Plant Health (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002Plant healthPlantsKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2012-11-07PLANT HEALTH, WALES
This Order amends the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 (“the principal Order”) so as to implement certain elements of Commission Directives 2002/29/EC (OJ No. L77, 20.3.02, p.26) and 2002/28/EC (OJ No. L77, 20.3.02, p.23) in Wales which are not implemented in other legislation. Directive 2002/29/EC amends the protected zones established under Council Directive 2000/29/EC (OJ No. L169, 10.7.2000, p.1) (“the principal Plant Health Directive”) and scheduled in the Annex to Commission Directive 2001/32/EC (OJ No. L127, 9.5.2001, p. 38). Directive 2002/28/EC provides for consequential amendments to certain Annexes of the principal Plant Health Directive.
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2002 No. 1805 (W.175)
PLANT HEALTH, WALES
The Plant Health (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002
Made
11th July 2002
Coming into force
6 August 2002
The National Assembly for Wales, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by sections 2, 3(1) to (4) and 4(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967 as read with section 20 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales hereby makes the following Order:
1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48);
1972 c. 62.
Section 1(2)(b) of the Plant Health Act 1967 provides that the competent authority in England and Wales for the purposes of that Act is the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. By virtue of the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272), article 2(1) and Schedule 1, the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Health Act 1967 were, so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State for Wales. These functions of the Secretary of State for Wales were then transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).