{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1989/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANT HEALTH\nMade 4th May 1989\nLaid before Parliament 18th May 1989\nComing into force 8th June 1989\nThe Forestry Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 2 and 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967, as read with section 20 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 8; sections 2(1), 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with S.I. 1984/447, and section 52(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33), and, as regards Scotland, with section 289G(13) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21) as inserted by section 66 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 (c. 41), and S.I. 1984/526. The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 of the Plant Health Act 1967 are conferred on “a competent authority”, which expression is defined in section 1(2), as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests, as the Forestry Commissioners."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 62."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/823/introduction",
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  "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."
}