Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948.No..

 

REGULATION 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 twenty-first day of July, 1948.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendment of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations.

After regulation 20 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

Noxious animals and plants.

“20a.—(1.) Where the Director becomes aware of the presence of any noxious animal or plant on any vessel, he shall notify the master of the vessel that the animal or plant is a noxious animal or plant, as the case may be.

“(2.) A person shall not land, or permit to be landed, from any vessel, any noxious animal or plant.

“(3.) Where any noxious animal or plant is found to be on any vessel, the Director may order the vessel into quarantine or may order the treatment of the vessel and any cargo which is on the vessel or which has been off loaded from the vessel in such a manner and by such means as will, in the opinion of the Director, ensure the destruction of all noxious animals or plants on the vessel or in the cargo.

“(4.) Where any cargo has been off loaded from a vessel in which the presence of noxious animals or plants has been detected, the Director may take all measures he considers necessary to ensure the destruction of any noxious animals or plants which are or have been in that cargo or which have escaped from that vessel, and for that purpose, without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this sub-regulation, he may order that any place or building where the cargo is, or has been, and any place or building where he considers the noxious animals or plants may be at large, shall be treated in such manner and by such means as will ensure the complete destruction of the noxious animals or plants.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.

 Statutory Rules 1935, No. 91, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 36; 1937, Nos. 30 and 116; 1939, Nos. 20 and 40; 1940, No. 43; and 1948, No. 63.

2983.—Price 3d. 10/9.6.1948.

 

“(5.) In ordering treatment for the purposes of this regulation, the Director may order treatment by fumigation, disinfection, spraying, dusting or any other moans, and may order that the treatment be carried out with such chemicals, materials or agents as he considers most effective or convenient for the particular circumstances of the case.

“(6.) Where the Director has ordered treatment in pursuance of this regulation, the treatment shall be carried out at the expense of the master.

“(7.) For the purposes of this regulation ‘noxious animal or plant’ means any genus or species of any type of animal or plant life which may, in the opinion of the Director, cause, or be likely or capable of causing, damage to, or destruction of, plants, or may become a pest of plants.”.

 

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