{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2006/1643",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Requirements for plant passports",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (7) and article 22, the landing in or movement within Wales by any person of any relevant material of a description specified in Part A of Schedule 6 comprising EC transit goods or material originating in Wales or elsewhere in the European Community is prohibited, unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport and, if originating in Wales, has been the subject of a satisfactory inspection at the place of production.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (7) and articles 22 and 23, the landing in or movement within Wales by any person of any relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 6 comprising EC transit goods or material originating in Wales or elsewhere in the European Community is prohibited, unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for Wales as a protected zone and, if originating in Wales, has been the subject of a satisfactory inspection at the place of production.\n(3) A person must not move within Wales any relevant material, which if comprised of EC transit goods or material consigned to Wales from another part of the European Community would be subject to paragraph (1), after the phytosanitary certificate accompanying it has been officially stamped in accordance with article 12(7)(a) unless it is accompanied by a plant passport.\n(4) Subject to article 23, a person must not move within Wales any relevant material, which if comprised of EC transit goods or material consigned to Wales from another part of the European Community would be subject to paragraph (2), after the phytosanitary certificate accompanying it has been officially stamped in accordance with article 12(7)(a) unless it is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for Wales as a protected zone.\n(5) Subject to article 22, a person must not consign from Wales to another part of the European Community any relevant material of a description specified in Part A of Schedule 7 unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport.\n(6) Subject to article 22, a person must not consign from Wales to a protected zone in another part of the European Community any relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 7 unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for that protected zone.\n(7) The prohibitions imposed on landing by paragraphs (1) and (2) must not apply to relevant material in respect of which the National Assembly has agreed, pursuant to an agreement described in article 12(6), to carry out a plant health check.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for art. 21(8)(9)",
      "affecting": "wsi/2014/2368",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2014/521",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1643/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:30.295456+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."
}