Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations (No. 8) 1993 (WA)

5344	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	[1 October 1993
AG302

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1914

PLANT DISEASES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (NO. 8) 1993

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Plant Diseases Amendment

Regulations (No. 8) 1993.

Schedule 1 amended

2. Schedule 1 to the Plant Diseases Regulations 1989* is amended in Part B
by deleting clause 41 and substituting the following clause —

41.   Cut flowers and foliage, fruit, plants and vegetables —

Melon Thrips (Thrips palmi).

The entry of any plant or part of a plant, other than seeds, underground parts and dried or processed plant material of species of the Dicotyledons and families Orchidaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Alliaceae and Poaceae of the Monocotyledons is prohibited from any area within 500 km of an outbreak of Melon Thrips, unless certified as —

(a)	grown and packed in an area free from Melon Thrips established by an approved trapping and inspection programme; or
(b)	grown and packed on a property free from Melon Thrips established by an approved trapping and inspection programme; or
(c)	in the case of cut flowers or fruit, inspected at the approved sampling rate and found to be free from Melon Thrips; or
(d)	fumigated with methyl bromide for 2 hours at one of the following rates
56 g/m3 at 5° — 10°C

48 g/m° at 11° — 15°C 40 g/m3 at 16° — 20°C

By His Excellency's Command, D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.

32 g/m3	at 21° — 25°C
24 g/m3	at 26° — 30°C
16 g/m3	at 31° and above; or

(e)

fumigated with ethylene dibromide at 12 g/m3 for

2 hours at 20°C or above or in a manner approved for the control of fruit fly in the case of a particular fruit or vegetable; or

(f) when post harvest, treated in an approved manner.

{* Published in Gazette of 30 June 1989 at pp.1980-93.
For amendments to 14 September 1993 see 1992 Index to Legislation of
Western Australia, Table 4, p. 202, and Gazettes of 5 March, 4 June and
2 July 1993.]