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The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020
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21.—[F1(1) The appropriate authority may grant an authorisation to permit—
(a)the carrying out of any activity specified in a plant health derogation,
(b)the introduction into Wales, the movement within Wales, or the holding or multiplication in Wales, of a potential quarantine plant pest for official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding, or
(c)the carrying out of any other activity which requires the approval of the appropriate authority under [F2, or by virtue of,] the F3... Plant Health Regulation [F4, any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation,] the Official Controls Regulation or these Regulations.]
(2) An application for any such authorisation must be made to the appropriate authority in the manner and form required by the appropriate authority.
[F5(3) In paragraph (1)—
“plant health derogation” (“rhanddirymiad iechyd planhigion”) means—
“potential quarantine plant pest” (“pla planhigion cwarantin posibl”) means a plant pest which is not a [F10GB quarantine pest or a provisional GB quarantine pest], but which, in the opinion of the appropriate authority, fulfils the criteria set out in Subsection 1 of Section 3 of Annex 1 to that Regulation or may fulfil the criteria in Subsection 2 of that Section.]
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F1Reg. 21(1) substituted (13.11.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1134), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)
F2Words in reg. 21(1)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(a)(i)
F3Word in reg. 21(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(a)(ii)
F4Words in reg. 21(1)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(a)(iii)
F5Reg. 21(3) substituted (13.11.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1134), regs. 1, 2(5)(b)
F6Word in reg. 21(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(b)(i)(aa)
F7Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(b)(i)(bb)
F8Word in reg. 21(3) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1332), regs. 1(2), 24(2)
F9Words in reg. 21(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(b)(i)(cc)
F10Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 9(4)(b)(ii)
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I1Reg. 21 in force at 27.3.2020, see reg. 1
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