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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-13/paragraph-16",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111177563",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "When carrying out a survey of susceptible plants and residual material in a demarcated area, the survey must—\n(a) include the inspection, sampling and testing of those plants and that material for the presence of the plant pest;\n(b) focus in particular on susceptible plants which are dead, in poor health or affected by fire or storm; and\n(c) be carried out at an appropriate rate which ensures that the intensity of the survey in the area lying within a radius of 3000 m of an infested susceptible plant is at least four times higher than in the rest of the buffer zone outside that area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111177563/schedule/13/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:02:19.063317+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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