{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1989/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1989/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibition on the keeping etc. of tree pests, trees, wood, isolated bark etc.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order, no person shall without the authority of the Commissioners or an inspector–\n(a) knowingly keep, sell, plant, release, deliver or otherwise dispose of, or knowingly cause or permit to be kept, sold, planted, released, delivered or otherwise disposed of–\n(i) any tree pest of a description specified in Schedule 1;\n(ii) any tree, wood, isolated bark, used forestry machinery, soil or growing medium carrying or infected with a tree pest of a description specified in Schedule 1;\n(iii) any tree, wood, isolated bark, used forestry machinery, soil or growing medium landed in contravention of article 3(c) or (d);\n(iv) any genetically manipulated material;\n(v) any tree pest not associated with trees, wood, isolated bark, used forestry machinery, soil or growing medium (except insofar as any trees, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium are necessary to sustain the life of such tree pest) being a tree pest which is not normally present in Great Britain and which is likely to be injurious to trees in Great Britain;\n(b) engage in any activity which involves genetic manipulation of a tree pest or engage in any activity which to his knowledge involves genetically manipulated material.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1)(a) of this article shall prohibit the destruction, or the delivery to an inspector, of any such tree pest, genetically manipulated material, tree, wood, isolated bark, used forestry machinery, soil or growing medium referred to in that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/823/article/4",
    "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."
}