Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations (No. 5) 2000 (WA)

.1692 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [11 August 2000

AGRICULTURE

AG3o1-

Plant Diseases Act 1914

Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations

(No. 5) 2000

Made by the Administrator in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Plant Diseases
Amendment Regulations (No. 5) 2000.

2.            The regulations amended

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

[* Reprinted as at 17 March 2000.

For amendments to 7 July 2000 see 1999 Index to Legislation

of Western Australia, Table 4, p.	211, and Gazette 20 June
and 30 June 2000.]

3.            Regulation 17F amended

(1) Regulation 17F(1) and (2) are repealed and the following

subregulations are inserted instead -

(1) In this regulation -
"Kimberley Area" means that portion of the State that

is north of latitude 19°S.

" Kimberley Area
(2)	A person who takes citrus fruit or stone fruit into the Kimberley Area from another part of the State during the period beginning on 1 June and ending on 30 November in any year unless the fruit is certified -

(a)	as being from a part of the State that is free from Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata); or
(b)	as having been disinfested in an approved manner,

commits an offence.

Penalty: $5 000.

(2) Regulation 17F(3)(a) is amended by deleting "Ord River

Irrigation Area" and inserting instead -

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4.            Schedule 8 amended

Schedule 8 is amended by inserting the following item after item 15 —

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15A. Regulation 17F(2) Contravention of a

prohibition on taking citrus
fruit or stone fruit into the
Kimberley Area from
another part of the State 75

By Command of the Administrator,

ROD SPENCER, Clerk of the Executive Council.