- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Operator9
Any Person1
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Operator — also bound by 746 other Acts
Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air Operations)
203 duties
Space Industry Regulations 2021
76 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.004
Official register of professional operators
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Competent authorities must maintain an official register of professional operators dispatching plants to Northern IrelandStatutory regulator
s.005
Procedure for registration
Regulated
- Register and keep your plant health operator registration up to dateOperator
s.009
Issuance of Northern Ireland plant health labels
Regulated
- Authorised operators must only issue NI plant health labels for their own plants/objects at declared premises under official supervisionOperator
s.011
Obligations of authorised operators
Regulated
- Monitor critical points, keep records, and train staff for plant health labelsOperator
s.012
Substantive requirements for issue of a Northern Ireland plant health label
Regulated
- Only issue Northern Ireland plant health labels for compliant plantsOperator
s.013
Examinations for Northern Ireland plant health labels
Regulated
- Examine plants thoroughly before issuing Northern Ireland plant health labelsOperator
s.014
Attaching of the Northern Ireland plant health label
Regulated
- Attach Northern Ireland plant health label before dispatchOperator
s.018
Traceability
Regulated
- Keep traceability records for plants and objects with Northern Ireland plant health labelOperator
s.019
Replacing a Northern Ireland plant health label
Regulated
- Issue new plant health labels and keep old ones when dividing plant consignmentsOperator
s.020
Invalidation and removal of a Northern Ireland plant health label
Regulated
- Invalidate and remove non-compliant Northern Ireland plant health labels and notify authoritiesOperator
s.021
Movements to Northern Ireland
Regulated
- Do not dispatch consignments to Northern Ireland with NI plant health labels unless authorised and compliantAny Person
11 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation, commencement and extent
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Application of this Part
s.006
Applications for registration
s.007
Northern Ireland plant health label
s.008
Content and format of the Northern Ireland plant health label
s.010
Authorisation of professional operators to issue or receive and use Northern Ireland plant health labels
s.015
Inspections and withdrawal of authorisation
s.016
Official controls on professional operators authorised to issue Northern Ireland plant health labels
s.017
Northern Ireland plant health label replacing phytosanitary certificates
s.022
Amendments to the Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.