The Polish Potatoes (Notification) (England) Order 2004
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The Secretary of State, in relation to England, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2, 3(1), (2) and (4) and 4(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967[1] as read with section 20 of the Agricultural (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972[2], and now vested in her, makes the following Order: Title, commencement, extent and application 1. - (1) This Order may be cited as The Polish Potatoes (Notification) (England) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 24th June 2004. (2) This Order extends to England and Wales but applies only in relation to England. Interpretation 2. In this Order -
Notification of imports
(b) the proposed point of entry into England; (c) the intended use of the potatoes; (d) in the case of seed potatoes or potatoes intended for processing, the proposed destination of the potatoes; (e) the variety of the potatoes; (f) the quantity of potatoes; and (g) the producer's identification number or the reference number of the lot. (2) Any person who, after 30th April 2004
and before the coming into force of this Order, imported, in the
course of business, Polish potatoes into England shall, so far is as
reasonably practicable and no later than 8th July 2004, give written
notification to an inspector of -
(b) the point of entry; (c) the intended use of the potatoes; (d) in the case of seed potatoes or potatoes intended for processing, the destination or proposed destination of the potatoes; (e) the variety of the potatoes; (f) the quantity of potatoes; and (g) the producer's identification number or the reference number of the lot. (3) In this article, "processing" means any
industrial treatment, including grading, sorting, washing and packing,
whether for retail sale or not.
(b) the power conferred by article 22(2) of the principal Order as read with article 24(1) to (3) of the principal Order, as if a Polish potato kept on or moved from premises, or likely to be so, were a plant kept on or moved from the premises in contravention of the principal Order. (3) An inspector may, for the purposes of
checking compliance with this Order, exercise the powers conferred by
article 25 of the principal Order, as if checking compliance with the
principal Order. (This note is not part of the Order) This Order, which comes into force on 24th June 2004, places certain notification requirements upon persons importing potatoes from Poland which have been grown during 2003 or later. Article 3 requires any person importing Polish potatoes into England in the course of business to give at least two days' notice in writing to a Plant Health inspector of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, providing specified details as to, among other things, when and where the potatoes are to be introduced into England (article 3(1)). It also requires persons who imported such potatoes into England after 30th April 2004 but before the coming into force of this Order to provide to an inspector, so far as is reasonably practicable, specified information of a similar nature no later than 8th July 2004 (article 3(2)). Article 4 provides that, for the purpose of checking compliance with or enforcing this Order, an inspector may exercise certain powers conferred by the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 ("the principal Order"). Article 5 provides that a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without reasonable excuse, he contravenes or fails to comply with a requirement of article 3. No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for this Order. Notes: [1] 1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48). 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. Under article 2(1) and (2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794), the remaining functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Health Act 1967 were transferred to the Secretary of State.back [3] S.I. 1993/1320; amended by S.I. 1993/3213, 1995/1358 and 2929, 1996/25, 1165 and 3242, 1997/1145 and 2907, 1998/349, 1121 and 2245 and 1999/2126 and 2726, 2001/2343, 2002/1067 and 2003/1157.back
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