{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-ips-typographus-england-order-2019/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-ips-typographus-england-order-2019/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/40",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Ips typographus) (England) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-ips-typographus-england-order-2019",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order introduces specific measures for the control in England of infestations of Ips typographus (Heer) (the larger eight-toothed spruce bark beetle) which is a serious pest of conifer trees.\nArticle 3 makes provision for the Forestry Commissioners to demarcate an area of England (which may further be divided into an infested area and a controlled area) and to specify the susceptible material (see article 2(1)) to which the prohibitions on movement in article 4 are to apply in response to a confirmed finding of Ips typographus.\nArticle 4 prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, the movement of susceptible material within or out of a demarcated area, or an infested or controlled area, as described in a notice published under the Order, without the written authority of a plant health inspector.\nArticle 5 contains provisions relating to inspection and enforcement.\nArticle 6 makes it an offence to contravene a prohibition on the movement of susceptible material contained in Article 4(2). A person guilty of an offence under article 6 is liable on summary conviction to a fine.\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/40/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:49:17.503776+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."
}