Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 2001 (WA)

8 January 2002 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 31

AG301*

Plant Diseases Act 1914

Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations

(No. 6) 2001

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor in
Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Plant Diseases
Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 2001.

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 20 November 2001 see 2000 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 258, and Gazette
13 February, 8 June and 17 July 2001.]

3.            Regulation 17C inserted

After regulation 17B the following regulation is inserted —

(Fusarium oxysporum f sp. cubense).

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17C.	Banana plants (Musa spp.) — Panama Disease Tropical Race 4
( 1 )	In this regulation —
"quarantine area" means —

(a)	the area within 50 kilometres of the Broome Post Office;
(b)	the area within 50 kilometres of the Carnarvon Post Office; or
(c)	the area within 50 kilometres of the Kununurra Post Office.

(2) This regulation applies to a covering that contains

banana fruit grown or packed within 50 kilometres of a
known outbreak of Panama Disease Tropical Race 4

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(3)	A person shall not take or send a covering to which this regulation applies into a quarantine area from another part of the State, unless the covering is stamped in accordance with subregulation (5).
(4)	A person shall not take delivery, in a quarantine area, of a covering to which this regulation applies from another part of the State, unless the covering is stamped in accordance with subregulation (5).
(5)	The covering is to be stamped in an approved manner to indicate that the covering and its contents have been inspected by an inspector and found to be free of soil and plant debris.
(6)	For the purposes of regulation 16(1) —

(a)	a quarantine area is a specified portion of the State; and
(b)	Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 (Fusarium oxysporum f sp. cubense) is a specified disease.

4.            Regulation 17F amended

Regulation 17F(2) is amended by deleting "June" and inserting instead —

" April ".

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and deputy of the Governor,

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