Welsh Statutory Instruments

2010 No. 1795 (W.171)

PLANT HEALTH, WALES

The Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2010

Made

12 July 2010

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

13 July 2010

Coming into force

17 August 2010

The Welsh Ministers in whom the powers conferred by sections 3 and 4(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967(1) are now vested(2) make the following Order in exercise of those powers.

(1)

1967 c. 8; sections 3(1), (2) and (5) and 4(1) were amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68). Section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48).

(2)

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