Article 30 Prevention of the spread of fire blight disease

No person shall bud or graft, or knowingly cause or permit to be budded or grafted, any tree or rootstock with any bud or scion of the pear variety Laxton’s Superb or otherwise propagate, or knowingly cause or permit to be propagated, any pear tree of that variety.

No person shall plant on any premises a tree which is wholly or partly of the pear variety Laxton’s Superb.

For the purposes of Part III of Schedule 1 “the fire blight free region” means the region comprising Scotland and the counties of Northumberland, Cumbria, Tyne and Wear, Durham, Cleveland and North Yorkshire (except the district of Selby and the Borough of York).