Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 43.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1924.*

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 1908-1924.

Dated this twenty eighth day of February, 1940.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

F. STEWART

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations.

1. Regulation 22aof the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Treatment of raw cotton.

22a. The importation of raw cotton (lint or linters) which is subject to quarantine shall be subject to the following conditions:—

(a) The bales of raw cotton shall, on importation, be delivered direct to the mills for manufacture;

(b) All coverings or wrappings and staves used in packing or baling the raw cotton shall, when any bale is opened, be removed from the cotton contained therein and burnt in the mill premises; and

(c) Except in the case of raw cotton imported from the United States of America, all cotton debris, waste matter, seed and other material separated from the raw cotton during processing by the first machines through which the cotton passes shall be burnt in the mill premises or be crushed between steel rollers in those premises.”.

2. Regulation 23 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Cotton from north-western Australia.

23.—(1.) The removal of raw cotton (lint and linters) from north-western Australia to any other part of the Commonwealth other than the State of Queensland shall be subject to the conditions prescribed by regulation 22a of these Regulations.

(2.) The removal of cotton seed from north-western Australia to any other part of the Commonwealth shall be subject to the condition that the cotton seed shall be treated for a period of at least one hour by the dry heat process, at a temperature of at least 145 degrees Fahrenheit in apparatus approved by the Director of Quarantine.

(3.) In this regulation, ‘north-western Australia’ means that part of Western Australia north of latitude twenty-six degrees south, together with the Northern Territory of Australia.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 91, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 36; 1937, Nos. 30 and 116; and 1939, Nos. 20 and 49.

 

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

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