Article 1 CitationI1

This Order may be cited as the Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019 and comes into operation on 1st December 2019.

This Order applies to Northern Ireland only in so far as it does not deal with import and export controls and trade with any place outside the United Kingdom, within the meaning of paragraph 20 of Schedule 3 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998^f1.