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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2018/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/132",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2018",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Fees for export certification services",
  "text": "(1) A person who applies to the Scottish Ministers for a certificate ... in relation to a plant, plant product or other object, must pay to the Scottish Ministers any fee prescribed in column 3 of the table in the schedule 1 which corresponds to a service described in column 2 of the table which has been performed by an inspector in connection with that application.\n(2) Paragraph (3) applies where—\n(a) a service listed in column 2 of the table in the schedule 1 includes the issue of a certificate ...; and\n(b) the application for the issue of the certificate ... is refused by an inspector by reason of the results of any related inspection, examination or test.\n(3) A fee is still payable for the service mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) by the person mentioned in paragraph (1).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (1.4.2021) by The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/88), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 4(1) substituted (13.11.2025) by The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/241), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/466), regs. 1(1)(c), 10(3) (with regs. 31(d), 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(1) substituted (18.5.2024) by The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/86), arts. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2)(a) substituted (18.5.2024) by The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/86), arts. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 4(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/466), regs. 1(1)(c), 10(3) (with regs. 31(d), 32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 4(4) omitted (13.11.2025) by virtue of The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/241), arts. 1, 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 4(5) omitted (13.11.2025) by virtue of The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/241), arts. 1, 2(2)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/132/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:02.682521+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."
}