The Plant Health (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2012

Made: 27th November 2012

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 29th November 2012

Coming into force: 14th January 2013

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Citation and commencement

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Amendments to the Plant Health (Scotland) Order 2005

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Amendment of Part 1

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Amendment of Part 2

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Amendment of Part 3

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Amendment of Schedule 1

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Amendment of Schedule 2

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Amendment of Schedule 4

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Amendment of Schedule 5

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Amendment of Schedule 6

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Amendment of Schedule 7

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Signed

PAUL WHEELHOUSE — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 2012-11-27

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Plant Health (Scotland) Order 2005 (“the principal Order”) to include emergency measures to prevent the introduction and spread of Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski, including its teleomorph Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus, a cause of ash dieback.

In particular, the Order:

• (a) prohibits the landing in or the spread within Scotland of Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski (article 6);

• (b) prohibits the landing in or the movement within Scotland of plants of Fraxinus L. intended for planting which are infected with Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski (article 7));

• (c) imposes additional requirements on the landing in or movement within Scotland of plants of Fraxinus L. intended for planting (articles 8 to 10); and

• (d) imposes additional requirements on the consignment from Scotland to other parts of the European Union of plants of Fraxinus L. intended for planting (article 11)).

Emergency measures to prevent the introduction and spread of Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski were introduced by the Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/2707). Under section 1(2)(a) of the Plant Health Act 1967 (“the 1967 Act”) the competent authority for those measures in relation to the protection of forest trees and timber is the Forestry Commissioners. This Order enables the Scottish Ministers to act as competent authority for Scotland, under section1(2)(b) of the 1967 Act, in relation to measures to prevent the introduction and spread of Chalara fraxinea T. Kowalski otherwise.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c.8. Sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68) (“the 1972 Act”), section4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8 and further amended by S.I.2011/1043. Section 3(4) was substituted by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48), section42 and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c.50), section1(1) and Schedule 1, Part XIV. There are other amendments which are not relevant to this Order. The functions of the Secretary of State, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

[^f00002]: 1972 c.62.

[^f00003]: S.S.I.2005/613, amended by S.S.I.2006/474, 2007/415 and 498, 2008/300 and 350, 2009/153, 2010/206 and 342, S.I.2011/1043, and S.S.I. 2012/266.

[^f00004]: Available from the IPPC Secretariat, AGPP-FAO, Viale Delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy and at https://www.ippc.int/int.

[^f00006]: Item 37a was inserted by S.S.I.2012/266.

[^f00007]: Paragraph 8 was inserted by S.S.I.2008/350.

[^f00008]: Paragraph 8 was inserted by S.S.I.2008/350, article 7.

Editorial notes

[^key-5c8ad083a0e2bff38485bc786466600c]: Order revoked (14.12.2019) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/421), reg. 1(1), sch. 6