{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-england-regulations-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-2.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General restrictions on the planting of potatoes",
  "text": "(1) A person must not knowingly plant, or knowingly cause or permit to be planted—\n(a) any potatoes which have been grown in a third country to which the prohibition in Article 40(1) of the Plant Health Regulation applies; or\n(b) any potatoes produced from those potatoes.\n(2) A person must not knowingly plant, or knowingly cause or permit to be planted, any potatoes unless—\n(a) they derive in direct line from potato material which has been obtained under a programme for the certification of potatoes which has been officially approved by a competent authority or a CD authority;\n(b) they have been found to be free from Potato ring rot in official tests using the methods set out in EPPO PM 7/21; and\n(c) they have been found to be free from Potato brown rot in official tests using the methods set out in EPPO PM 7/59.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 18(2)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 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/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}