The Plant Health (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1741

PLANT HEATH

The Plant Health (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1990

Made

23rd August 1990

Laid before Parliament

24th August 1990

Coming into force

14th September 1990

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in relation to England, the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(2)(b), 2 and 3(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967(1) upon the said Minister and the Secretary of State for Scotland and now, in relation to Wales, vested in the Secretary of State for Wales(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title, extent and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1990, shall apply to Great Britain and shall come into force on 14th September 1990.

Amendment of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987

2.  The Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987(3) shall be amended as follows—

(1) in Part IA of Schedule 1 Item 13 (Phthorimaea operculella(Zeller)) shall be omitted;

(2) In Part IIA of Schedule 1 after Item 10 there shall be inserted the following Item—

“11.  Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) — Potato Tuber Moth

Tubers of Potato (Solanum tuberosumL.)”;

(3) in Part IIC of Schedule 1 after Item 15 there shall be inserted the following Item—

“16.  Colletotrichum acutatum Simmonds — Strawberry Black Spot

Plants of Strawberry (Fragaria L.) other than fruit and seeds”;

(4) in Part IIC of Schedule 3 in column 3 of Item 27—

(a) in paragraph (1) after sub-paragraph (i) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(iA) Strawberry Black Spot (Colletotrichum acutatumSimmonds);”;

(b) in paragraph (5) the following words shall be omitted—

9 “it shall be free from Strawberry Black Spot (Colletotrichum acutatum Simmonds) and”.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on

L.S.

Trumpington

Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

22nd August 1990.

Sanderson of Bowden

Minister of State, Scottish Office

23rd August 1990

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

21st August 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987 so as to modify the controls on—

(a) Potato Tuber Moth (article 2(1) and (2)); and

(b) strawberry plants carrying or infected with Strawberry Black Spot (article 2(3) and (4)).

(1)

1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8.

(2)

In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.

(3)

S.I. 1987/1758, relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1989/553.