Plant Diseases Amendment Regulations (No. 9) 1993 (WA)

1 October 1993]	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	5345
AGSM

PLANT DISEASES ACT 1914

PLANT DISEASES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (NO. 9) 1993

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

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

Regulations (No. 9) 1993.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Plant Diseases Regulations 1989* are referred to

as the principal regulations.

[* Published in Gazette of 30 June 1989 at pp. 1989-93.

For amendments to 22 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.]

Regulation 17 repealed and a regulation substituted

3. Regulation 17 of the principal regulations is repealed and the following

regulation is substituted —

Citrus, Fortunella, Poneirus — Citrus Leaf Miner

17. (1) A person may bring or send into the _part of the State south of 21° South Latitude from the part of the State north of 21° South Latitude, any plant of any of the genera Citrus, Fort unella and Poncirus —

(a)	if —
(i) the area in which the plant was grown is

declared free of citrus leaf miner by the
Department of Agriculture;

(ii) it is accompanied by a statutory declaration by

with subparagraph (I).

the grower to the effect that the plant was grown in an area so declared by the Department of Agriculture; and

(iii) it has affixed to it a label bearing the address

of the place where the plant was grown;

or

(b)	if the plants are certified as —
(i) free from leaves and flush growth; and
(ii) having —

(I)	been treated for citrus leaf miner with a
solution of 6 ml of diazinon (80% active ingredient) and 120 ml of white petroleum oil in 10 litres of water; or
(II)	come from an approved nursery where
the plants were treated in accordance

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(2)

A consignment from an approved nursery referred to in subregulation (1) (b) (ii) (II) must be accompanied by a declaration made by the occupier of the approved nursery specifying that the plants were treated in accordance with subregulation (1) (b) (ii) (I) no more than 3 days before the plants were consigned.

(3) For the purposes of regulation 16 (1) citrus leaf miner is

a specified disease.

Schedule 1 amended

4.   Schedule 1 to the principal regulations is amended in Part B —

(a) in clause 4 by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting the
following paragraphs —

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(b) to be from an accredited fruit fly free area;

Or

(c)	to be certified as having been treated for fruit fly control at one of the following temperatures —
0°C ± 0.5°C for 14 days; or 1.0°C ± 0.5°C for 16 days; or 1.5°C ± 0.5°C for 18 days.

and

(b) by repealing clause 27 and substituting the following clause —

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27. Citrus, Fortunella and Poncirus

plants — Citrus Leaf Miner (Phyllocnistis citrella)

Plants must —

(a) be certified as grown in an area free from citrus leaf miner and have a label affixed bearing the address of the place where the plant was grown;

or

(b) be certified as free from leaves or

flush growth.

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