Amendment of the Plant Diseases Regulations (ACT)

Regulations under the Plant Diseases Ordinance

1934-1938.

T H A R O L D V I C T O R C A M P B E L L T H O R B Y , the Minister of -State

A for Works, acting for and.on behalf of the Minister of State for the Interior, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Plant	Diseases
Ordinance 1934-1938, hereby make the following Regulations.

Dated this sixteenth day of December, 1938.

H. V. C. T H O R B Y

• for Minister of State for the Interior.

A M E N D M E N T OE T H E P L A N T D I S E A S E S R E G U L A T I O N S .

1. Regulation 2 of the Plant Diseases Regulations is amended by r-ui-ts.

inserting, after the words " P a r t VI.—Control of fruit fly." the words

" P a r t VIA.—Contro l of aphididae and fungi."

2. Regulation 9 of the P lan t Diseases Regulations is amended by Snicof

inserting, after sub-regulation (1 . ) , the following sub-regulation:—	potatoes.
" ( I A . ) At the time of any sale, or offor for sale, of potatoes, the vendor or offerer for sale of the potatoes shall state to the customer the grade of potatoes so sold or offered for sale and, where a docket relating to the sale is delivered to the customer, shall endorse on the <locket the grade of potatoes sold.

3.—(1.) Regulations 21, 22, 30 and 31 of the P lan t Diseases Ueponioi

„ , .} ' ° i , ' ' regulations

Regulations are-repealed.	21,22, so ami
(2.) A certificate of registration of an orchard or nursery issued prior to the commencement of this regulation shall continue in force as if it had been issued after such commencement.

4. Regulation 27 of the Plant Diseases Regulations is amended by Jlethoil ol

omitting the words "Secretary, Department of the I n t e r i o r " and tes |5tr»,lon-

inserting in their stead the words "Director-General of Works" .

omitting the words " Secretary, Department of the In t e r io r " and rcei5tratio"- 5. Regulation 29 of the Plant Diseases Regulations is amended by certificate <>i

inserting in their stead the words " Director-General of Works ".

6. Regulation 32 of the P lan t Diseases Regulations is amended by Dispell or

omitting the words "Secretary, Department of the I n t e r i o r "	and nursery to be
inserting in their stead the words " Director-General of Works ".	notified.
7. After regulation 32 of the Plant Diseases Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
time require every owner and every occupier of an orchard to furnish mch™j£K"1	" 32A. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, from time to irurtiiir

by whom or by which the fruit was packed.".

to the Director-General a return showing—
(a) particulars of trees growing in the orchard which are not shown in the certificate of registration of that orchard; and

(b) particulars of trees removed from the orchard since the date

of its registration.". ' '"'

8. Regulation 37 of the P lan t Diseases Regulations is amended by Treatment to

adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—	eyuiiaito,ruil
" (4.) A person shall not, during the period commencing on the first day of October in any year and ending on the thirtieth day of April iu the succeeding year, import any fruit into the Territory from any district declared, in pursuance of the law of any State, to be a fly-infected district unless—

(a) he produces to an inspector a certificate signed by the officer thereto authorized under the law of the State from which • it is sought to import the fruit, that he has inspected the fruit and that it is free from infection of fruit fly; and

(h) the covering or package which contains the fruit is legibly
marked with the name and address of the person or firm

9. After Part VI. of the Plant Diseases Regulations the following

Part is inserted :—

" P A R T VJA.—CONTROL OF APHIDIDAE AND FUNGI.

Treatment to 37A. Every owner and every occupier of laud or premises on which

eradicate

rtplildldao and	any peach, nectarine, almond, cherry or apricot tree is growing shall—
fungi.

(a) when the trees are completely dormant, thoroughly spray the tree with a mixture of tar distillate and water mixed in a proportion of one gallon tar distillate to thirty-five gallons of water; and

(l>) when the huds on the tree are beginning to swell, hut not,

less than four weeks after the tree has been sprayed with the mixture of tar distillate and water, thoroughly spray the tree with bordeaux mixture.".

The 1'ourth

Hchodule. 10. The Fourth Schedule to the Plant Diseases Regulations is

amended—.

(a) by omitting the words " Secretary, Department of the Interior" (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead " Dircotor-vGeneral of "Works "; and

(b) by omitting the letters "F.C.T." (wherever occurring) and

inserting in their stead the letters " A.O.T.".