Paragraph 21 Restrictions in relation to susceptible material or objects contaminated or possibly contaminated with Potato ring rotI1

England and Wales

(1)

No person may knowingly plant or knowingly cause or permit to be planted—

(a)

any contaminated susceptible material; or

(b)

any possibly contaminated susceptible material.

(2)

Where susceptible material or an object has been designated as contaminated or possibly contaminated under paragraph 20(1) or (5), a plant health inspector must serve a notice requiring that—

(a)

in the case of contaminated susceptible material, the material be disposed of by destruction or by F1an officially approved disposal method that ensures that there is no identifiable risk of Potato ring rot spreading;

(b)

in the case of possibly contaminated susceptible material, the material be used or disposed of F2 in a manner that ensures that there is no identifiable risk of Potato ring rot spreading;

(c)

in the case of a contaminated object or a possibly contaminated object, the object be—

(i)

disposed of by destruction; or

(ii)

cleansed and disinfected so that there is no identifiable risk of Potato ring rot surviving or spreading.

(3)

Anything cleansed and disinfected in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)(c)(ii) may no longer be treated as contaminated for the purposes of F3this Part.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 2 para. 21(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(5)(a)(i)
F2: Words in Sch. 2 para. 21(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(5)(a)(ii)
F3: Words in Sch. 2 para. 21(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 20(5)(b)

Commencement

I1: Sch. 2 para. 21 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)