{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wood-and-bark-order-northern-ireland-2006/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wood-and-bark-order-northern-ireland-2006/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/66",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Wood and Bark) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-wood-and-bark-order-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "General provisions relating to UK plant passports",
  "text": "(1) Any alteration or erasure in a UK plant passport shall automatically invalidate that UK plant passport unless the alteration or erasure is certified by the authorised officer or the forestry trader authorised under Article 26 to issue the UK plant passport placing his hand written initials next to the alteration or erasure.\n(2) A UK plant passport relating to any relevant material shall be treated as accompanying that relevant material only if the UK plant passport is—\n(a) affixed to the relevant material or to the packaging of that material by an authorised officer, the forestry trader authorised to issue it or an inspector; or\n(b) carried in the vehicle transporting that material.\n(3) A UK plant passport, insofar as it comprises an official label, shall be affixed in such a way that it cannot be re-used.\n(4) A person may only issue a replacement UK plant passport—\n(a) to replace a UK plant passport issued in respect of a consignment—\n(i) that has been divided up;\n(ii) that has been combined, or part of which has been combined with another consignment; or\n(iii) whose plant health status has changed; and\n(b) if he is satisfied that the relevant material to which the replacement UK plant passport will relate—\n(i) can be identified; and\n(ii) is free from any risk of infestation by a pest specified in either Schedule 1 or 2 to the Plant Health Regulations .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (14.12.2019) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/230), reg. 1, Sch. 6 (with regs. 51-53)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 22(1)-(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/820), regs. 1(1), 3(27)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 22(4)(b)(ii) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/820), regs. 1(1), 3(27)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 22 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/820), regs. 1(1), 3(27)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 22 in operation at 31.3.2006, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/66/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:48:18.455500+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."
}