{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-phytophthora-ramorum-great-britain-order-2002/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-phytophthora-ramorum-great-britain-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Landing susceptible material from the USA",
  "text": "(1) This article does not apply to susceptible material consigned directly to Great Britain from another member State, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or from elsewhere in the United Kingdom.\n(2) Except under the authority of a licence granted by virtue of article 5—\n(a) no person shall land in Great Britain susceptible material originating in the USA unless the susceptible material meets such conditions of landing as are specified in the second column of the Schedule; and\n(b) no person acting in the course of a trade or business shall move or keep any susceptible material landed in breach of paragraph (a).\n(3) Susceptible material landed in breach of paragraph (2) shall be prohibited within the meaning of the Customs Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Note that sections 49 and 50 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2) provide respectively for forfeiture of goods improperly imported and penalties for improper importation of goods."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1478/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:55:12.156574+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."
}