The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/428
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title, extent and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1987, shall apply to Great Britain and shall come into force on 18th March 1987.

Section 2 Amendment of principal order

The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 1980 shall be amended as follows—

(a) in Part I of Schedule 1 (plant pests the landing of which is prohibited) after entry 22 there shall be inserted the following entry—

“23 Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande) — Western Flower Thrips.”; and

(b) in Schedule 2 (conditions subject to which plant and plant products may be landed) in Part 1A in relation to item 1 there shall be inserted in column (3) after paragraph (6) the following paragraph—

(7) The consignment shall be accompanied by an official statement that the plants comprising it were—

(a) officially examined immediately prior to export and found to be free from Western Flower Thrips ( Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)), and

(b) grown at a place of production at which Western Flower Thrips ( Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande)) is not known to have occurred during the four weeks prior to the date on which the plants were removed from such place