{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2004/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2004/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/248",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order–\n“certificate” means a phytosanitary certificate or a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate;\n“inspector” means any person authorised by the Scottish Ministers to be an inspector for the purposes of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993;\n“phytosanitary certificate” means a certificate duly completed either in the form set out in Schedule 14 to the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 or the equivalent written in a language other than English;\n“premises” includes any land, building, vessel, vehicle, aircraft, hovercraft or freight container;\n“reforwarding phytosanitary certificate” means a certificate duly completed either in the form set out in Schedule 15 to the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993 or the equivalent written in a language other than English;\n“soil” includes any medium used for the growing of plant material and “soil sample” shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) Where a fee is prescribed in this Order in relation to an inspection, examination or test as well as the issue of a certificate, the refusal to issue a certificate by reason of the results of the inspection, examination or test being unsatisfactory shall not affect the amount of the fee payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1320 to which there are amendments but none relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/137",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/137",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/248/article/2",
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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."
}