{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1993/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1993/article-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Requirements for certificates",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this article and to article 10, no person shall land in Great Britain any relevant material of a description specified in column 2 of Part A of Schedule 4 which is directly consigned to Great Britain from a third country, unless that relevant material is accompanied by the certificate, if any, referred to in column 4 of that Part opposite that description, issued in the country in which the relevant material was grown or originated.\n(2) Where, after a phytosanitary certificate has been issued, the consignment to which that certificate relates has been stored, repacked or split up in a country other than that in which the certificate was issued, that certificate shall be accompanied by a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate issued in that other country.\n(3) Where any relevant material which is of a description specified in column 2 of Part A of Schedule 4, following its export from Great Britain, is landed in Great Britain having been directly consigned from a third country, it shall be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate issued in the country from which it was directly consigned to Great Britain.\n(4) A phytosanitary certificate required under Part A of Schedule 4 may be issued in a country other than the country of origin—\n(a) in relation to any wood, if the only condition specified with respect to the wood in Part A of Schedule 4 is a condition that the wood shall be stripped of its bark;\n(b) in relation to any other relevant material, to the extent that any condition specified in Part A of Schedule 4 can be fulfilled at a place other than in the country of origin.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/2589",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (\"Phytophthora ramorum\") (Great Britain) (No. 2) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1283/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:56:38.104692+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."
}