{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/128",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Plant Health\nMade 6th March 2015\nComing into operation 27th March 2015\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1) of the Plant Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972.\nThis Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and it appears to the Department that it is expedient for the references to the European Union instruments mentioned in article 3(a) and (e) to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Ministry of Agriculture became known as the Department of Agriculture by virtue of section 7(5) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c.36) and was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1967 c.68 (N.I.); sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No. 351, art. 3 and Sch. 2. Section 2(2) was amended by 1979 c.2, s.177 (1) and Sch.4, Pt II. Sections 2 and 3 were also amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I.2), Arts 15(2), 24 and Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and amended by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/128/introduction",
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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."
}