{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1989/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/823",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1989",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Period during which inspections are to be made and certificates issued",
  "text": "(1) Except for an official inspection which is required to be carried out for the purposes of making an official statement in accordance with a condition referred to in column 3 of Schedule 3, an inspection carried out for the purposes of issuing a phytosanitary certificate or a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate shall be carried out not more than 14 days before the date of the despatch of the consignment to which the inspection relates.\n(2) A phytosanitary certificate or a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate shall not be valid for the purposes of this Order unless it is completed and signed by an authorised officer not more than 14 days before the date of the despatch of the consignment which it is to accompany and after the carrying out of any inspection referred to in paragraph (1) of this article which relates to that consignment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/823/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:31.485718+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."
}