The Plant Health (Forestry) Order 2005

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9.—(1) Except in the case of consignments referred to in paragraph (3), any phytosanitary certificate, phytosanitary certificate for re-export or industry certificate required under article 7 to accompany relevant material shall be delivered by the importer of that relevant material, within three days of its landing, to an inspector.

(2) Subject to article 29(4), importers shall include in a customs document relating to each consignment of relevant material referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of article 6(2)—

(a)a statement that “this consignment contains produce of phytosanitary relevance”;

(b)the reference number of any phytosanitary certificate, phytosanitary certificate for re-export or industry certificate required by article 7 to accompany the relevant material; and

(c)the registration number of the importer of the relevant material.

(3) In the case of a consignment imported into Great Britain by post, any phytosanitary certificate, phytosanitary certificate for re-export or industry certificate required by article 7 to accompany that material shall be affixed to the outside of the package comprising the relevant material or, if the consignment of relevant material consists of more than one package, be affixed to the outside of one of the packages and copies of the certificate shall be affixed to the outside of each of the remaining packages.