Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2004 (WA)

1106 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 21 September 2004

AG302*

Amendment Regulations (NO. 3) 2004.

Plant Diseases Act 1914

Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations

(No. 3) 2004

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Plant Diseases

21 September 2004 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4107

2.             The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Plant Diseases
Regulations 1989*.

[* Reprinted as at 20 September 2002.

For amendments to 13 May 2004 see Western Australian
Legislation Information Tables for 2003, Table 4, p. 283, and
Gazette 16 and 23 January 2004.]

3.             Schedule 1 amended

Schedule 1 Part B is amended by deleting conditions 23 and
23A and inserting instead the following conditions —

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23.           Sorghum seed — sorghum midge (Contarinia sorghicola)

(1) Sorghum seed is to be —

(a) certified as fumigated with phosphine in a sealed

enclosure at 1.5 g/m3 —

(i)      for 7 days at above 25°C; or

(ii)      for 10 days at 15°C — 25°C;

or

(b) certified as fumigated with methyl bromide for

2 hours in a sealed enclosure at one of the following
rates —

(i)     24 g/m3 at 26°C — 31.9°C;

(ii)     32 g/m3 at 21°C — 25.9°C;

(iii)     40 g/m3 at 15°C — 20.9°C;

(iv)     48 g/m3 at 10°C — 14.9°C.

(2) Sorghum seed is to contain less than 1% by weight of chaff

consisting of vegetative parts of plants other than seed or

seed fragments.

23A.	Sorghum seed — ergot (Claviceps spp.)
Seed for sowing is to be certified as —

(a)	dipped in a solution of 2% available chlorine for 5 minutes; or
(b)	dusted with Thiram at the rate of 200 g/100 kg of seed.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.