{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-frequency-of-checks-regulations-2022/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-frequency-of-checks-regulations-2022/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/739",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-frequency-of-checks-regulations-2022",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nPart 1 of these Regulations makes provision for a regime to determine the frequency rates of physical checks and identity checks of consignments of certain plants, plant products and other objects entering Great Britain from a third country, including for the modification of those frequency rates. The plants, plant products and other objects are those for which a phytosanitary certificate is required for entry into Great Britain and which have been assessed as posing an actual or potential threat to plant biosecurity.\nPart 2 revokes Part 6 of the Official Controls, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/426).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/739/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:58:04.230989+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."
}