Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1968 No.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1961,*

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 1908-1961.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of July, 1968.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) A. J. FORBES

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendment of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations

Regulation 21d of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Potatoes.

“21d.—(1.) Where the Director of Quarantine, by instrument in writing, consents to the importation of tubers or parts of tubers of plants of the species Solanum tuberosum Linn. for purposes other than the production of plants of that species, this regulation applies to any tubers or parts of tubers that are imported into Australia in accordance with the instrument.

“(2.) Where tubers or parts of tubers to which this regulation applies are imported into Australia, a quarantine officer shall not authorize their delivery to the importer under section 54 of the Act unless—

(a) the tubers or parts of tubers have been treated for the purpose of rendering them non-viable;

(b)particulars of the manner in which they have been so treated have been furnished to the quarantine officer; and

(c) the quarantine officer is satisfied that treatment of the tubers or parts of tubers in that manner would be effective to render them non-viable.

“(3.) Where tubers or parts of tubers to which this regulation applies are ordered into quarantine, treatment in such a manner as will render them nonviable is a prescribed treatment for the purpose of section 56 of the Act.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 91, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 36; 1937, Nos. 30 and 116; 1939, Nos. 20 and 49; 1940, Nos. 43; 1948, Nos. 63 and 92; 1950, Nos. 27 and 78; 1953, Nos. 4; 1954, Nos. 3; 1955, Nos. 71; 1956, Nos. 24 and 66; 1957, Nos. 75; 1959, Nos. 73; 1961, Nos. 29; 1963, Nos. 110; 1964, Nos. 117; 1965, Nos. 82; 1966, Nos. 13; and 1967, No. 45.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

19663/68––Price 5c 10/19.7.1968