{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1517",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection, England\nPlant Health, England\nMade 20th December 2019\nLaid before Parliament 23rd December 2019\nComing into force 14th January 2020\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”) in relation to the common agricultural policy and measures relating to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms .\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the 1972 Act.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act and it appears expedient to the Secretary of State for the references to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants , and to the European Union instruments mentioned in regulation 3(1), to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). It is prospectively repealed from exit day by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) (see section 20 of that Act)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. The function of the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of making regulations under section 2(2) was transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/755, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. The function of the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of making regulations under section 2(2) was transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "OJ No. L 319, 10.12.2019, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied in part (with modifications) (25.2.2025) by The Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/217), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1517/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:09.912166+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."
}