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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-export-certification-scotland-order-2018/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Plant Health\nMade 25th April 2018\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 27th April 2018\nComing into force 1st June 2018\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1), (2) and (4) and 4A of the Plant Health Act 1967 and of all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c.8; sections 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68), section 4 and schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(1) was also amended by S.I. 2011/1043, article 6(1); section 3(4) was substituted by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48), section 42 and amended by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c.50), schedule 1, part XIV; and section 4A was inserted by the Agriculture Act 1986 (c.49), section 3. Section 1(2) of the 1967 Act specifies the competent authorities for the purposes of the Act. The functions of the Secretary of State insofar as exercisable within devolved competence were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46). The requirement to obtain Treasury consent was removed by section 55 of that Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/132/introduction",
    "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."
}