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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-miscellaneous-revocations-england-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/741",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Miscellaneous Revocations) (England) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-miscellaneous-revocations-england-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Plant Health, England\nMade 16th March 2015\nLaid before Parliament 18th March 2015\nComing into force 1st July 2015\nThe Forestry Commissioners make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1), (2) and (4) and 5(1) of the Plant Health Act 1967.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c.8; section 3(1) and (2) was amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c.68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8 and section 3(1) was further amended by S.I. 2011/1043, article 6(1). Section 3(4) was substituted by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48), section 42 and amended by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c.50), Schedule 1, Part XIV. The powers conferred by sections 3 and 5 are conferred on a “competent authority”, which is defined in section 1(2). Section 1(2) was amended by article 4(1) of, and paragraph 43 of Schedule 2 to, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755). Under section 1(2), as amended, the Forestry Commissioners are the competent authority for England (and Scotland) as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/741/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."
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