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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-phytophthora-ramorum-great-britain-order-2002/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PLANT HEALTH\nMade 6th June 2002\nLaid before Parliament 6th June 2002\nComing into force 27th June 2002\nThe Forestry Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 2, 3(1), (2)(b) and (4) of the Plant Health Act 1967, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 2 was amended by the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2); section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48). Section 1(2) of the Plant Health Act 1967 defines “competent authorities” for the purposes of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1478/introduction",
    "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."
}