1997 No. 397

PLANT HEALTH

Plant Health (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 21, 3(1)2, 3A3, 3B(1)4 and 4(1)5 of the Plant Health Act (Northern Ireland) 19676 and of all powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 6th October 1997.

Amendment of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993

2

The Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 19937 shall be amended in accordance with Articles 3 and 4.

3

In Schedule 3, Part A, item 7, there shall be inserted in the second column after the words “third countries other than:” the word “Algeria”.

4

In Schedule 148 at the end there shall be added the following—

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on

R. S. JohnstonAssistant Secretary

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order further amends the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993. The Order implements as respects Northern Ireland Commission Directive 97/14/EC removing the prohibition on the import of ware potatoes from Algeria into the Community (O.J. No. L.87, 02.04.97, p. 17).