Article 2 Amendment of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987

The Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the provisions of this article.

In article 10 (General provisions relating to certificates) for paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“(5)

Except in the case of consignments imported into Great Britain by post, any phytosanitary certificate and reforwarding phytosanitary certificate accompanying a consignment from any country which is not a Member State shall be delivered to the proper officer at the same time as, and together with, the entry relating to the consignment. In this paragraph the expression “proper officer” has the like meaning as in the Customs Act and the reference to the entry shall be construed as reference to the entry, delivery of which is to be made in accordance with the provision of that Act.”.