{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wales-order-2006/article-23.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/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Validity of plant passports for Wales",
  "text": "(1) Where a person moves relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 6 through Wales to a destination outside Wales, he or she is not required to produce a plant passport which is valid for Wales as a protected zone, if paragraph (2) or (3) applies.\n(2) A plant passport is not required in respect of relevant material described in paragraph (1) if that material originates in Great Britain.\n(3) A plant passport is not required in respect of relevant material described in paragraph (1)—\n(a) which during transit through Wales is accompanied by a document of a type normally used for trade purposes which certifies that the material originates outside Wales and is in transit to a final destination outside Wales; and\n(b) whose packaging and any vehicle used in connection with its transit through Wales is—\n(i) free from soil and plant debris;\n(ii) free from any relevant plant pest in relation to which Wales is a protected zone;\n(iii) of such a nature or construction as to ensure that, if any relevant plant pest is present in the relevant material, there is no risk of its spreading from the packaging or the vehicle as the case may be; and\n(iv) sealed immediately after packaging or where appropriate after loading, and remains sealed during transit through Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1643/article/23",
    "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."
}