{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987/article-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987/article-46.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/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (4) of this article, no person shall contravene, or fail to comply with, a provision of this Order or a provision or condition of a notice served or having effect as if served or a licence granted or having effect as if granted in accordance with the provisions of this Order.\n(2) No person shall for the purpose of procuring the issue of a phytosanitary certificate or a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate under article 4 or of a licence under article 42—\n(a) make a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular;\n(b) recklessly make a statement which is false in a material particular; or\n(c) intentionally fail to disclose any material particular.\n(3) No person shall intentionally obstruct an inspector or any person authorised by an inspector in the exercise of his powers given by or under this Order.\n(4) Paragraph (1) of this article shall not apply to the landing in Great Britain of articles of any description in contravention of a prohibition imposed by or under this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/553",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1758/article/46",
    "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."
}