Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1950. No.78.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1947.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1947.

Dated this first day of November, 1950.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE QUARANTINE (PLANTS) REGULATIONS. 

After Regulation 21D of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Permits, conditions and restrictions relating to nursery stock.

“ 21E.—(1.) In this regulation—

‘ approved authority ’ means a Department or authority of the Commonwealth or a State equipped for plant introduction work or a research organization or person registered by the Director under sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation;

‘ nursery stock ’ means all living plant material used in a nursery and includes—

(a) woody plants;

(b) seedlings of herbaceous plants; and

(c)slips, cuttings, layers, runners, offsets and similar material used for vegetative propagation of woody or herbaceous plants.

“ (2.) A research organization or a person may apply to the Director for registration as an approved authority for the purposes of this regulation.

“ (3.) The Director may, in his absolute discretion, register or refuse to register a research organization or person as an approved authority.

“ (4.) A person shall not import any nursery stock into Australia unless—

(a)he is an approved authority; and

(b) he is the holder of a permit issued by the Director for the importation of that nursery stock.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1950.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 91, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 36; 1937, Nos. 30 and 116; 1939, Nos. 20 and 19; 1940, No. 43; 1948, Nos. 63 and 92; and 1950, No.

2279.—Price 3d. 20/12.5.1950.

“ (5.) An application for registration under this regulation and an application for a permit to import nursery stock shall be forwarded through the Chief Quarantine Officer in the State in which the nursery stock is to be grown and the Chief Quarantine Officer shall endorse on an application such recommendation as he thinks fit.

“ (6.) An approved authority shall deliver a permit issued for the importation of nursery stock with the notice and declaration required to be given by regulation 4 of these Regulations.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.