The Plant Health (Export Certification) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014 No. 609

Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 609

Plant Health, England

The Plant Health (Export Certification) (England) (Amendment) Order 2014

Made

11th March 2014

Laid before Parliament

14th March 2014

Coming into force

6th April 2014

The Secretary of State(1), with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1) and 4A of the Plant Health Act 1967(2).

(1)

The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Health Act 1967 (c. 8) were, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (Wales) (No. 1) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/272). Those functions were transferred from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). The remaining functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

(2)

1967 c. 8; section 3(1) was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8 and further amended by S.I. 2011/1043, Part 2, article 6(1)(e); section 4A was inserted by the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49), section 3.