PART 4Amendment of Northern Ireland legislation

Amendments to the Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

22.—(1) The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 2, paragraph 2 (general restrictions on the planting of potatoes)—

(a)after sub-paragraph (2), insert—

(2A) But sub-paragraphs (1) and (2)(a) do not apply in relation to tubers of Solanum tuberosum L. (seed potatoes) from Great Britain that have entered Northern Ireland as part of a consignment with a Northern Ireland plant health label, or (as regards sub-paragraph (1)), any potatoes produced from those potatoes;

(b)after sub-paragraph (4), insert—

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2A), “Northern Ireland plant health label” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Windsor Framework (Plant Health) Regulations 2023