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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-phytophthora-ramorum-scotland-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) (Scotland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-phytophthora-ramorum-scotland-order-2002",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order–\n“inspector” means any person authorised by the Scottish Ministers to be an inspector for the purposes of the principal Order;\n“origin” means, in respect of susceptible American material or susceptible material, the place where the material is grown or produced, and “originating” shall be construed accordingly;\n“phytosanitary certificate” means a certificate duly completed in the form set out in Schedule 14 to the principal Order and issued in compliance with articles 12(4) to (7) and 13 of the principal Order;\n“plant” has the same meaning as that given in the principal Order;\n“the principal Order” means the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993;\n“susceptible American material” means, plants of the genera listed in the first column of the Schedule originating in the United States of America (“USA”);\n“susceptible material” means plants of all species of the genera Rhododendron and Viburnum originating anywhere.\n(2) A reference in this Order to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication, as defined in the Electronic Communications Act 2000 which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/1320; amended by S.I. 1993/3213, 1995/1358 and 2929, 1996/25, 1165 and 3242, 1997/1145 and 2907, 1998/349, 1121 and 2245, S.S.I. 1999/22 and 129, 2000/201, 2001/249 and 2002/164."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 7."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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