# The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993, Article 9: Requirements for certificates


(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.
(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.
(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.
(4) A phytosanitary certificate required under Part A of Schedule 4 may be issued in a country other than the country of origin—
(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;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1283/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-order-1993/article-9
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