Regulation 21 Authorisations for other purposesI1

England and Wales

F1(1)

The appropriate authority may grant an authorisation to permit—

(a)

the carrying out of any activity specified in a plant health derogation;

(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

(c)

the carrying out of any other activity which requires the approval of the appropriate authority under F2, or by virtue of, the F3... Plant Health Regulation, the Official Controls Regulation F4, any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation, or these Regulations.

(2)

An application for any such authorisation must be made to the appropriate authority in the manner and form required by the appropriate authority.

F5(3)

In paragraph (1)—

“plant health derogation” means—
1. (a)
  a derogation from provisions of the F6... Plant Health Regulation which is set out in F7F8assimilated law or regulations made under the ... Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation; F9...
2. (b)
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“potential quarantine plant pest” means a plant pest which is not a F10GB 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.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 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)
F2: 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)
F3: 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)
F4: 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)
F5: 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)
F6: 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)
F7: 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)
F8: 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)
F9: 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)
F10: 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)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 21 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)