Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 20.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908-1924.

Dated this seventeenth day of March, 1939.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. S. FOLL

Minister of State for Health.

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Amendment of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations.

Regulation 21 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“E.—(1.) In the case of vegetables from any country, a certificate dated and signed by a responsible officer of the Department of Agriculture of the country of origin identifying the vegetables, stating the quantity, and certifying—

(a) that they were grown in the country named;

(b) that the pest known as Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae (L.)) does not exist in the part of the country in which they were grown;

(c) that they were, on inspection prior to shipment, found to be free from Pieris rapae (L.); and

(d) that they were packed in the country of origin in clean new packages.

“(2.) For the purposes of this sub-regulation ‘vegetables’ means borecole, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, chou moellier, horse radish, kohl rabi, radish, rape, swedes, turnip or any vegetable whatsoever of the family Cruciferae, and includes lettuce.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 23rd March, 1939.

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

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

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