{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/regulation-21.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": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Authorisations for other purposes",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority may grant an authorisation to permit—\n(a) the carrying out of any activity specified in a plant health derogation;\n(b) the introduction into England, the movement within England, or the holding or multiplication in England, of a potential quarantine plant pest for official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding; or\n(c) the carrying out of any other activity which requires the approval of the appropriate authority under , or by virtue of, the ... Plant Health Regulation, the Official Controls Regulation , any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation, or these Regulations.\n(2) An application for any such authorisation must be made to the appropriate authority in the manner and form required by the appropriate authority.\n(3) In paragraph (1)—\n“plant health derogation” means—\n(a)a derogation from provisions of the ... Plant Health Regulation which is set out in assimilated law or regulations made under the ... Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation; ...\n(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“potential quarantine plant pest” means a plant pest which is not a GB quarantine pest or a provisional GB quarantine pest, but which, in the opinion of the appropriate authority, fulfils the criteria set out in Subsection 1 of Section 3 of Annex 1 to that Regulation or may fulfil the criteria in Subsection 2 of that Section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 21(1) substituted (15.10.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1014), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(1)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(1)(c) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 21(3) substituted (15.10.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1014), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 21(3) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 46(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(i)(cc)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 11(4)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1517/regulation/21",
    "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."
}