Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1953.No. 4.

 

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 seventeenth day of January, 1953.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

SGD. EARLE PAGE

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. Regulation 3 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the definitions of “goods”, “plant” and “quarantine officer”; and

(b)by omitting from the definition of “Chief Quarantine Officer” in that sub-regulation the word “imported”.

Fees for fumigation.

2. Regulation 7 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by inserting, before the word “plants” in sub-regulation (1.), the word “imported”.

3. Regulation 9 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Conveyance to quarantine station.

“9. Where plants or goods have been ordered into quarantine, a quarantine officer may order the plants or goods to be conveyed to a quarantine station or to any other place, and thereupon the plants or goods shall be conveyed to the quarantine station or other place in such manner and by such means as a quarantine officer directs.”.

4. After regulation 27 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Goods and plants infected withSiricidae(Wood wasps).

“27a.—(1.) Where goods are—

(a)subject to quarantine by reason of being infected with the quarantinable disease Siricidae (Wood wasps) or of having been in contact with or exposed to infection from that disease; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1953.

  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; and 1950, Nos. 27 and 78.

5371.—Price 3d. 9/16.12.1952.

(b) ordered into quarantine by a quarantine officer by reason of being, or being likely to be, in his opinion, infected with the quarantinable disease Siricidae (Wood wasps) (being a disease affecting plants) or a source of infection with that disease,

a quarantine officer may direct the owner, or the person having the custody, of the goods, to treat the goods, or cause the goods to be treated, by fumigation or spraying, or by a heat process, for the purpose of destroying the disease in the goods.

“(2.) Where plants in a part of the Commonwealth in which the quarantinable disease Siricidae (Wood wasps) exists, being plants declared by Proclamation to be subject to quarantine, are ordered into quarantine, a quarantine officer may direct the owner, or the person having the custody, of the plants, to treat the plants, or cause the plants to be treated, by fumigation or spraying, or by a heat process, for the purpose of destroying the disease in the plants and, in the case of live plants, the quarantine officer may direct that the plants be cut or felled for the purpose of treatment.

“(3.) Where a quarantine officer, in pursuance of this regulation, directs that goods or plants be treated for the purpose of destroying the quarantinable disease Siricidae (Wood wasps) in the goods or plants and the goods or plants are not treated to his satisfaction, the quarantine officer may carry out that treatment, or cause the treatment to be carried out, to his satisfaction, at the expense of the owner of the goods or plants.”.

5. After regulation 34 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Inspection of goods and plants.

“34a.—(1.)A quarantine officer may, at any time, enter any premises or place for the purpose of inspecting, and may inspect, any plants or goods which are, or, in his opinion, are likely to be, infected with a quarantinable disease.

“(2.) A person having the custody of plants or goods which are, or, in the opinion of a quarantine officer, are likely to be, infected with a quarantinable disease, shall make those plants or goods available for inspection by a quarantine officer at such time and in such manner as the officer directs.

“(3.) Where a quarantine officer inspects plants or goods under this regulation, the person having the custody of those plants or goods shall pay a fee in respect of that inspection in accordance with the Second Schedule.

Plants and goods ordered into quarantine not to be moved.

“34b. A person shall not, except in accordance with directions given by a quarantine officer, move, or suffer or permit to be moved, any plants or goods ordered into quarantine.”.

 

By Authority: L. F.