The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019 No. 1517

PART 6 E+W Registration, authorisations and certificates relating to plant health

Authorisations for other purposes E+W

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 England, the movement within England, or the holding or multiplication in England, 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, the Official Controls Regulation [F4 , any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or 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” means—

(a)

a derogation from provisions of the F6 ... Plant Health Regulation which is set out in [F7 retained EU law or regulations made] under the F6 ... Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation; F8 ...

(b)

F8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“potential quarantine plant pest” means a plant pest which is not a [F9 GB 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.] 

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 21(1) substituted (15.10.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1014), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 21(1)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)(i)

F3 Word in reg. 21(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)(ii)

F4 Words in reg. 21(1)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)(iii)

F5 Reg. 21(3) substituted (15.10.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1014), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)

F6 Word in reg. 21(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(i)(aa)

F7 Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(i)(bb)

F8 Words in reg. 21(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(i)(cc)

F9 Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(ii)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 21 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)