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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-8/paragraph-7",
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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/8/paragraph/7",
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  "number": "7",
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  "text": "Any official post-entry quarantine for the purposes of paragraph 6 must—\n(a) be supervised by the appropriate UK plant health authority and executed by officially approved and trained staff;\n(b) ensure that the recognisable mark on each plant is preserved;\n(c) be performed at an officially approved site with the facilities necessary to contain the spread of plant pests and maintain the permitted plants in a manner that eliminates any risk of the spread of relevant plant pests; and\n(d) be performed for each permitted plant—\n(i) by visual examination upon arrival and at regular intervals subsequently, having regard to the type of relevant material and its state of development during the quarantine period, for relevant plant pests or symptoms caused by a relevant plant pest; and\n(ii) by appropriate testing of any symptoms observed in the visual examination in order to identify the plant pest causing those symptoms.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111177563/schedule/8/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}