IMPORTATION OF PLANTS ORDER OF 1947. Dated APRIL 15, 1947.
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1947/671 |
1947 No. 671
DESTRUCTIVE INSECT AND PEST
(3) Importation of Plants
THE IMPORTATION OF PLANTS ORDER OF 1947. DATED APRIL 15, 1947.The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in him under the Destructive Insects and Pests Acts, 1877 to 1927, and of every other power enabling him in this behalf, orders as follows:—
Definitions
1. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:—
"Importer" includes any person who, whether as owner, consignor or consignee, agent or broker, is in possession of or in anywise entitled to the custody or control of the article.
"Inspector" means an Inspector or other authorised officer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
"Minister" means the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.
"Plant" includes tree and shrub, and the fruit, seeds, tubers, bulbs, corms, rhizomes, roots, layers, cuttings and other parts of a plant.
"Raw Vegetables" includes raw tomatoes, raw aubergines, and raw salads, but does not include potatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers, marrows or pumpkins.
"Unhealthy" means affected with any insect, fungus, bacteria, or other vegetable or animal organisms or any agent causative of a transmissible crop disease.
Application of Order
2. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to prohibit or restrict the landing or transhipment in England or Wales of any plant, potatoes, raw vegetables or raw apples grown in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.
Prohibition against landing and restriction on transhipment in England or Wales of certain Potatoes
3.—(1) The landing in England or Wales of any potatoes grown in the undermentioned countries is hereby prohibited:—
the United States of America, the Dominion of Canada and European France.
(2) The transhipment in England or Wales of any of the potatoes specified in paragraph (1) of this Article is prohibited except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Minister or by an Inspector.
(3) In this Article "potatoes" includes potato haulms, leaves and stalks.
Prohibition of Importation of Plants of Sugar Beet and Mangold
4. For the prevention of the introduction of virus diseases of sugar beet and mangold the landing in England or Wales of any plant of sugar beet or mangold of the species Beta vulgaris Linn. (except the seeds thereof) is hereby prohibited except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Minister or by an Inspector.
Restrictions on landing in England or Wales of certain Plants and Potatoes
5.—(1) The landing in England or Wales of any of the plants mentioned in the First Schedule to this Order and of potatoes is hereby prohibited, unless each consignment is accompanied by two copies of a certificate of a duly authorised Official of the Phytopathological Service of the country in which the plants or potatoes were grown in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule to this Order. The inspection referred to in the certificate shall be carried out not more than fourteen days prior to the date of shipment. The original of the certificate shall be forwarded by post by the exporter to the Horticulture Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, London, S.W.1., before the plants or potatoes are dispatched. Except in the case of consignments imported through the post, a copy of the prescribed certificate shall be delivered to the proper Officer of Customs and Excise at the same time as and together with the entry relating to the consignment. In the case of consignments imported through the post, a copy of the prescribed certificate shall be affixed to each package.
(2) In the case of any of the plants mentioned in the First Schedule to this Order and of potatoes grown in any European country, the United States of America or the Dominion of Canada, the certificate required by paragraph (1) of this Article shall include a certificate of a duly authorised Official of the Phytopathological Service of the country in which the plants or potatoes were grown which shall be, where the certificate relates to a plant, in the Form A or the Form B set out in the Third Schedule to this Order (as the circumstances may require), and where the certificate relates to potatoes, in the said Form A.
(3) Paragraph (2) of this Article shall not apply to flower bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes.
(4) The certificate prescribed in this Article shall, except in the case of a consignment consisting wholly of potatoes, include a statement to the effect that the consignment does not contain any plant of sugar beet or mangold, or any plant of the genus Ulmus or of the undermentioned genera of the order Pinaceae, viz., Abies, Larix, Picea, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, Sequoia, Thuja and Tsuga, except...
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