# The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020, Regulation 21: Authorisations for other purposes

Extent: E+W

(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 Wales, the movement within Wales, or the holding or multiplication in Wales, 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 , or by virtue of, the ... Plant Health Regulation , any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation, 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.
(3) In paragraph (1)—
“plant health derogation” (“rhanddirymiad iechyd planhigion”) means—
(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, ...
(b)...
“potential quarantine plant pest” (“pla planhigion cwarantin posibl”) 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/206/regulation/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-and-genetically-modified-organisms-wales-regulations-2020/regulation-21
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