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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1993/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1283",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1993",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "General provisions relating to plant passports",
  "text": "(1) A plant passport relating to any relevant material shall, insofar as it comprises an official label, be treated as accompanying any relevant material only if it is affixed to—\n(a) the relevant material,\n(b) the packaging of that material, or\n(c) the vehicle transporting that material.\n(2) A plant passport, insofar as it comprises an official label, shall be affixed in such a way that it cannot be re-used.\n(3) Any alteration or erasure of a plant passport shall automatically invalidate that plant passport, unless the alteration or erasure is certified by the forestry trader authorised to affix the plant passport.\n(4) No person shall affix a plant passport to any relevant material or cause a plant passport to accompany any such material unless he is authorised to do so by the Commissioners and the plant passport complies with the requirements of Schedule 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/3213",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2004 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2589",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (\"Phytophthora ramorum\") (Great Britain) (No. 2) Order 2002"
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      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (\"Phytophthora ramorum\") (Great Britain) (No. 2) Order 2002"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1283/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:56:38.104692+00:00"
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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."
}