The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2002

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

(a) “inspector” means any person authorised to be an inspector for the purposes of the principal Order;

“origin” means in respect of susceptible material, the place where the material is grown or produced, and “originating” shall be construed accordingly;

a reference in respect of susceptible material to the place where material is produced shall be construed as referring to “the place of production” of that material as defined in the principal Order;

“the principal Order” means the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993(1);

“susceptible material” means the trees, bark or wood described in the first column of the Schedule; and

(b) the following words have the meaning given them in the principal Order—

• Customs Act

• Great Britain

• Growing medium

• Isolated bark

• Land, landed and landing

• Phytosanitary certificate

• Reforwarding phytosanitary certificate

• Seed

• Soil

• Tree

• Tree in tissue culture

• Wood.

(2) Unless otherwise stated, a reference in this Order to a numbered article refers to the article so numbered in this Order; a reference to a paragraph refers to a paragraph in the article in which the reference appears; and references to “the Schedule” refer to the Schedule to this Order.

(1)

S.I. 1993/1283, amended by S.I. 1994/3094, 1995/1989, 1996/751, 1998/2206 and 3109, 2001/2995, 2002/295 and 927.