Plant Protection (Banana Black Sigatoka-Torres Strait Islands) Quarantine Notice 1999 (Qld)

Queensland Subordinate Legislation 1999 No. 81 Plant Protection Act 1989 PLANT PROTECTION (BANANA BLACK SIGATOKA—TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS) QUARANTINE NOTICE 1999 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Pest quarantine areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Objects of quarantines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 Restriction on moving, planting and cultivating banana plants . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 Restriction on moving appliances and other things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 Treatment of banana plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 BANANA BLACK SIGATOKA RESISTANT CULTIVARS

s1 2 s3 Plant Protection (Banana Black No. 81, 1999 Sigatoka—Torres Strait Islands) Quarantine ˙ Short title 1. This notice may be cited as the Plant Protection (Banana Black Sigatoka—Torres Strait Islands) Quarantine Notice 1999 . 1 ˙ Definitions 2. In this notice— “banana plant” means a plant of the genus Musa , other than a banana black Sigatoka resistant cultivar mentioned in the schedule, but does not include the fruit of the plant. “pest quarantine area” means a pest quarantine area declared under section 3. ˙ Pest quarantine areas 3. The area of each of the following islands that is above the low water mark is a pest quarantine area— (a) Friday Island; (b) Goods Island; (c) Hammond Island; (d) Horn Island; (e) Prince of Wales Island; (f) Thursday Island; (g) Wednesday Island. 1 Section 11(9) of the Act (Pest quarantine area) provides as follows— ‘ (9) A [quarantine] notice under subsection (1) remains in force until whichever of the following first happens— (a) the commencement into effect of a regulation under subsection (1) in relation to the same matter; (b) the end of 21 days.’.

s4 3 s7 Plant Protection (Banana Black No. 81, 1999 Sigatoka—Torres Strait Islands) Quarantine ˙ Objects of quarantines 4. The objects of the quarantine for each pest quarantine area are— (a) to prevent the banana black Sigatoka pest being spread in Queensland; and (b) to eradicate the banana black Sigatoka pest in each pest quarantine area. ˙ Restriction on moving, planting and cultivating banana plants 5. A person must not, without an inspector’s approval— (a) move a banana plant out of a pest quarantine area; or (b) move a banana plant from a parcel of land in a pest quarantine area to another parcel of land within the area; or (c) plant a banana plant in a pest quarantine area; or (d) cultivate a banana plant in a pest quarantine area. ˙ Restriction on moving appliances and other things 6. A person must not, without an inspector’s approval, move an appliance or other thing that has been in contact with a banana plant— (a) out of a pest quarantine area; or (b) from a parcel of land in a pest quarantine area to another parcel of land within the area. ˙ Treatment of banana plants 7.(1) This section applies to an owner of land in a pest quarantine area who grows a banana plant on the land. (2) The owner must treat, or allow an inspector to treat, each banana plant growing on the land as follows— (a) treat the leaf tissue that is dead or not green in colour by— (i) burning it; or

s7 4 s7 Plant Protection (Banana Black No. 81, 1999 Sigatoka—Torres Strait Islands) Quarantine (ii) burying it under at least 600 mm of soil; (b) treat the pseudostem and leaf tissue, other than leaf tissue that is dead or not green in colour, by— (i) cutting them into pieces of no more than 600 mm in length; and (ii) leaving the pieces to rot on the surface of the soil or burying them under at least 1 m of soil; (c) treat the corm, suckers and butt of each pseudostem by— (i) removing them from the soil, cutting them into pieces of no more than 50 mm in diameter and either— (A) leaving the pieces to rot on the surface of the soil; or (B) burying them under at least 1 m of soil; or (ii) injecting each pseudostem at a height of 30 cm above the ground with a 3.6% solution of glyphosate solution at a rate of 15 ml for each pseudostem and spraying any regrowth with a 0.2% solution of 2,4-D.

5 Plant Protection (Banana Black Sigatoka—Torres Strait Islands) Quarantine No. 81, 1999 S ¡ CHEDULE BANANA BLACK SIGATOKA RESISTANT CULTIVARS section 2, definition “banana plant” Blue Java Bluggoe Ducasse FHIA 02 Gold Finger Kluai Namwa Khom (Dwarf Ducasse) Pisang Ceylan Sh 3436 Simoi Yangambi 5km ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Minister for Primary Industries on 6 May 1999. 2. Notified in the gazette on 7 May 1999. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Primary Industries. © State of Queensland 1999