Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 71.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1950.*

I,

 THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908-1950.

Dated this		19th
day of	October		, 1955.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s’ Command,

Minister of State for Health.

Amendments of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations.

Fees for inspection and examination.

1. Regulation 6 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (4.) and (5.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) This regulation does not apply to or in relation to a quantity of plants or goods—

(a)carried as part of the personal luggage (other than luggage carried in the hold of a ship) of a passenger on, or a member of the crew of, a ship or aircraft; or

(b)sent through the post as a gift parcel or other parcel addressed to a person other than a person engaged in the business of importing plants or goods of the kind in the parcel,

that the quarantine officer considers to be a negligible quantity for the purposes of this regulation.”.

Fees for fumigation.

2. Regulation 7 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.).

Fees for supervision.

3. Regulation 7a of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1955.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 91, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 36; 1937, Nos. 30 and 116; 1939, Nos. 20 and 49; 1940, No. 43; 1948, Nos. 63 and 92; 1950, Nos. 27 and 78; 1953, No. 4; and 1954, No. 3.

2949/55.—Price 3d. 9/19.9.1955.

 

Second Schedule–Item 1.

4. Item 1 of the Second Schedule to the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (a)and (b)and inserting in their stead the following paragraph:—

“(a)Vegetable, flower, tree, cereal, legume or pasture seeds or other seeds for agricultural or horticultural purposes—
For each cental, or part of a cental, not exceeding 6 centals.............	1	0
For each cental, or part of a cental, exceeding 6 centals but not exceeding 50 centals....................................................................................	0	6
For each cental, or part of a cental, exceeding 50 centals.................	0	1	”.

Second Schedule— Item 8.

5. Item 8 of the Second Schedule to the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “1,000 super. feet” the words “or part of 1,000 super feet”.

                                              

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