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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-seeds-and-seed-potatoes-amendment-etc-regulations-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/426",
  "legislation_title": "The Official Controls, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/official-controls-plant-health-seeds-and-seed-potatoes-amendment-etc-regulations-2021",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in part to correct errors in S.I. 2019/809 and S.I. 2021/136 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.\nPlant Health\nSeeds, England\nSift requirements satisfied 25th March 2021\nMade 29th March 2021\nLaid before Parliament 30th March 2021\nComing into force 20th April 2021\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of, and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and Articles 22(2) and (3) and 144(6) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products (“the Official Controls Regulation”).\nThe Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers have consented to the Secretary of State making these Regulations for the purpose of Article 3(2B) of the Official Controls Regulation.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with Article 144(7) of the Official Controls Regulation, during the preparation and evaluation of the following Regulations.\nThe requirements of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (relating to the appropriate Parliamentary procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2018 c. 16; section 8 was amended by section 27 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement Act) 2020 (c. 1) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 was amended by section 41(4) of, and paragraph 53(2) of Schedule 5 to, that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "EUR 2017/625, amended by S.I. 2020/1481, there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 3(2B) of EUR 2017/625 contains the definition of “the appropriate authority”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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