Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Dutch Elm Disease (Restriction on Movement of Elms) Order 1984 by removing from the list of areas into and within which the movement of elm is restricted—
the county of Humberside, the districts of Fylde and West Lancashire in the county of Lancashire, and those parts of the counties of Cheshire, Clwyd, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Gwynedd and North Yorkshire which were included in the 1984 Order;
the districts of Bolton, Bradford, Bury, Knowsley, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Rotherham, Salford, Sefton, Sheffield, St Helens, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan;
Central Region and those parts of the region of Dumfries and Galloway which were included in the 1984 Order;
parts of the regions of Fife, Grampian, Highland, Lothian, Strathclyde and Tayside,
and by adding to the list of areas within which the movement of elm is restricted the district of Hyndburn in the county of Lancashire.