{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1967/28",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-act-northern-ireland-1967",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Control of spread of pests in Northern Ireland.",
  "text": "(1) The Ministry may from time to time make such orders as it thinks expedient [ or called for by any assimilated law or relevant Protocol obligation] for preventing the spread of pests in Northern Ireland [ or the conveyance of pests by articles exported from Northern Ireland].\n(1A) In this section, “relevant Protocol obligation” has the meaning given by section 2(2A).\nSubs. (2)—(5) rep. by 1984 NI 2",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SRO (NI) 1972/351"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health and Diseases of Animals (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/327), regs. 1(3), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 3(1) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "SRO (NI) 1972/351"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 3(1A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health and Diseases of Animals (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/327), regs. 1(3), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/28/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:31:03.789735+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."
}