{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987/article-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987/article-45.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1758",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987",
  "path": "article/45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Information to be given",
  "text": "(1) Any person who—\n(a) is the owner or occupier or other person in charge of premises in respect of which a notice has been served or which has effect as if it has been served under paragraph (4) or (5) of article 15, or on which an inspector knows or has reason to suspect that hop plants, hop plant products or hop poles are or have been present; or\n(b) has or has had, or is reasonably suspected by an inspector or any other officer of the appropriate Minister to have or have had in his possession or under his charge,\n(i) any potatoes, hop plants, hop plant products or hop poles, or\n(ii) any plant pest which is of a description specified in Part I or column 2 of Part II of Schedule 1 or which is mentioned in column 3 of Schedule 3, or\n(iii) any plant pest which is not normally present in Great Britain and which is injurious to plants in Great Britain, or\n(iv) any plant, plant product, soil or growing medium carrying or infected with a plant pest mentioned in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) or (iii) of this article, or\n(v) any plant, plant product, agricultural machinery, soil or growing medium which an inspector or any other officer of the appropriate Minister knows to have been landed or suspects has been landed in, or exported from, Great Britain, or\n(vi) any genetically manipulated material; or\n(c) as auctioneer, salesman or otherwise, has sold or offered for sale any of the things mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) of this article;\nshall, if so required by an inspector or any other officer of the appropriate Minister by notice in writing, give to the said inspector or officer within such reasonable time as may be specified in that notice, any information he may possess as to crops grown at any time on the premises mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of this article, as to any of the things mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) of this article and as to the persons who have or have had or are likely to have or have had any of the last mentioned things in their possession or under their charge, and shall produce for examination by the inspector any licences, declarations, certificates, records, invoices or other documents relating to such things.\n(2) Any information given under this article shall not be used as evidence against the person giving the information in any prosecution, except in respect of an alleged failure to comply with this article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1758/article/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:34.545107+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."
}