27 Plants Protection

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 27.

PLANTS PROTECTION.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

1. SHORT TITLE.

2. INTERPRETATION.

3. APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTORS.

4. IMPORTATION OF PLANTS.

5. POWERS OF GOVERNOR.

6. RULES.

7. DUTY OF IMPORTERS.

8. SEIZURE OF PLANTS.

9. POWER TO SEARCH FOR PLANTS ILLEGALLY IMPORTED.

10. POWER TO ENTER UPON LAND AND SEARCH FOR CAUSES OF DISEASE.

11. OWNER TO PAY EXPENSES EXCEPT IN CASES OF POVERTY.

12. OFFICERS TO ASSIST IN CARRYING OUT RULES.

13. NOTICES TO BE GIVEN BY OWNER OR OCCUPIER.

14. OFFENCES AND RECOVERY OF PENALTIES.

15. EXPENSES.

    CHAPTER 27.

    PLANTS PROTECTION.

    AN ACT RELATING TO THE DISEASES OF PLANTS.

    [1st August 1916.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Plants Protection Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'Comptroller' includes every officer of the Customs Department and, for the purpose of dealing with the importation of plants and packages through the post office, includes the postmaster and any official of the post office acting on his behalf by his direction or that of the Governor;

   'disinfection' includes fumigation;

   'imported' means brought into the Colony by any channel whatsoever;

   'importer' includes the owner and consignee and their agents and servants;

   'inspector' means an inspector appointed under this Act;

   'inspector's certificate' means the certificate of an inspector prescribed by the rules;

   'Minister' means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the administration of this Act;

   'packages' includes boxes, coverings, wrappers, earth, soil or anything whatsoever in which plants are imported;

   'plant' includes tree, shrub, herb or vegetable; and cuttings, bulbs, seeds, berries, buds and grafts;

   and the fruit or product of any plant; and the root, trunk, stem, branch or leaf of any plant;

   and the whole or any part of any growing, dying or dead plant including emptied pods, husks or skins;

   9 of 1916.

   15 of 1951.

   G. N. 7 (23) of 1964.

   18 of 1965.

   Short title.

   Interpretation.

   G. N. 7(23) of 1964, s. 2.

   15 of 1951, s. 2.

   27.1 PLANTS PROTECTION.

   Appointment of inspectors.

   Importation of plants.

   Power of Governor.

   18 of 1965, Schd.

   'plant disease' means any deterioration or destruction of any plant or parts of any plant which is capable of being communicated to any other plant or parts of a plant, whether such deterioration or destruction is due to disease, insects, blight, fungus or any other cause;

   'plant affected with insect pest or disease' means any plants, or the packages or wrappings that contain or have contained the same, in or on which any insect pest or disease is or has been present in any form or stage of development, or with which any plant, package or wrapping has come in contact;

   'rules' means rules made under this Act.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint, for the purposes of this Act, one or more inspectors.

4. No plants whatsoever, nor the packages thereof, shall be imported into the Colony except under and subject to...