{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2004/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Phytosanitary certificates for export of plants etc. to third countries",
  "text": "(1) Any requirement of a third country for a plant, plant product or other object to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate or a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate issued by an official plant protection organisation whether for the purposes of–\n(a) Article V of the International Plant Protection Convention 1951; or\n(b) any arrangement corresponding to that Article,\nmay be met by the issue of such a certificate by an inspector to accompany that plant product or other object.\n(2) Where an inspector issues a certificate under paragraph (1)–\n(a) that inspector may also in connection with the issue of that certificate carry out any of the other services listed in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order which that inspector considers necessary to meet the phytosanitary requirements of the importing country; and\n(b) where appropriate, that inspector may certify that a consignment has been inspected on the basis of a laboratory examination alone.\n(3) An inspector shall be authorised to enter onto premises for the purpose of any examination or inquiry under this Order.\n(4) The inspection referred to in the first item of column 1 of the Schedule to this Order may be carried out by any person authorised in writing by an inspector to inspect grain for the purposes of phytosanitary certification.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Adopted in 1951 (Treaty Series No. 16 (1954), Cmd 9077) and revised in 1979 (Miscellaneous Series No. 1 (1981), Cmnd 8108)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2007/137",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/248/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:31:05.461246+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."
}