UK Offence Report

The Disposal of Waste (Control of Beet Rhizomania Disease) Order 1988

UK Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 45 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
1revoked
Made
18 January 1988
In force from
1 March 1988
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
Made under
Plant Health Act 1967

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order which applies to Great Britain— a prohibits the depositing of waste obtained from the commercial processing (other than for retail sale) of certain imported root vegetables on land other than on land approved for that purpose, and imposes controls on the removal and transport of such waste (article 3); b provides for any person wishing to have land approved for the disposal of such waste to make application to the appropriate Minister, and for the appropriate Minister to grant his approval subject to conditions (if any) as are necessary to control the spread of Beet Rhizomania Disease (article 4); c enables plant health inspectors, by notice, to declare land adjoining, or in close proximity to approved land to be a safety zone and to prohibit the planting on such land or on approved land such plants as they may specify in the notice for the purpose of preventing the spread of Beet Rhizomania Disease (article 5); d imposes record-keeping requirements on persons in charge of processing premises, of vehicles used for the transport of waste or of approved land (article 6); e enables plant health inspectors to enter land or vehicles to ascertain whether the provisions of the Order are being or have been contravened (article 7); f provides for offences punishable by a maximum fine of £2,000 (article 9).

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