Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966

No. 13

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908-1961.

Dated this 26th day of January, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Signed) R.W. Swantz

Minister of State for Health.

Amendment of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the fourteenth day of February, 1966.

Second Schedule.

2. The Second Schedule to the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 6.

Fees for Inspection or Examination of Plants and Goods

Item No.	Plants or goods in respect of which fee payable	Fee
Cents
1	Plants, and parts of plants, for planting or sowing—
(a)Vegetable, flower, tree, cereal, legume or pasture seeds or other seeds for agricultural or horticultural purposes—
For each cental, or part of a cental, not exceeding 6 centals...........................	10
For each cental, or part of a cental, exceeding 6 centals but not exceeding 50 centals..............................................................................................................	5
For each cental, or part of a cental, exceeding 50 centals...............................	1
(b)Bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers—
For each 100 bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers, or part of 100 bulbs, corms, rhizomes or tubers................................................................................................	5
(c) Plants (including vegetative portions of plants)—
(i) Inspection or examination on importation—
For the first 25 plants, or part of 25 plants...........................................	10
For each 25 plants, or part of 25 plants, by which the number of plants exceeds 25 but does not exceed 300...........................................................	2
For each 25 plants, or part of 25 plants, by which the number of plants exceeds 300..............................................................................................	2
(ii) Inspection or examination after importation—
For each half of an hour, or part of half of an hour, occupied in the inspection or examination.............................................................................	50

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 February, 1966.

Statutory Rules 1939, No. 91, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1965, No. 82, and see also Statutory Rules 1965, No. 82.

8480/65.—Price 6d. (5c) 9/12.8.1965.

 

Second Schedule—continued

Fees for Inspection or Examination of Plants and Goods—continued

Item No.	Plants or goods in respect of which fee payable	Fee
Cents
2	Plants (including parts of plants), other than plants or parts of plants to which the last preceding item applies, for use as foodstuffs or drugs or in, or for, manufacturing or industrial processing—
(a) Coconuts—
For each cental, or part of a cental, by which the weight does not exceed 20 centals...........................................................................................................	1
For each 10 centals, or part of 10 centals, by which the weight exceeds 20 centals...........................................................................................................	2
(b) Plants other than coconuts—
For each cental, or part of a cental, by which the weight does not exceed 100 centals...........................................................................................................	5
For each cental, or part of a cental, by which the weight exceeds 100 centals but does not exceed 500 centals.........................................................................	1
For each 10 centals, or part of 10 centals, by which the weight exceeds 500 centals...........................................................................................................	1
3	Hay—
For each ton, or part of a ton, by which the weight does not exceed 100 tons	30
For each ton, or part of a ton, by which the weight exceeds 100 tons.....................	10
4	Furniture and other household goods and effects, and prefabricated buildings—
For each piece or bundle.....................................................................................	2
5	Outside cases, crates or containers, made wholly or partly of wood, bamboo, cane or similar material, the contents of which are not subject to inspection—
For each case, crate, chest or other container........................................................	1
6	Bamboo, rattan, wicker, cane and similar plants or goods—
If not made up into goods—For each 10 bundles or part of 10 bundles..................	2
If made up into goods—For each package...........................................................	5
7	Timber—
(a) Sawn, wholly or partly dressed, shaped, cut to size, wholly or partly made up, or prepared in any way or cut to size undressed—
For each case, crate, bundle or package containing—
Not more than 100 pieces.....................................................................	2
More than 100 but not more than 200 pieces.........................................	3
More than 200 but not more than 300 pieces.........................................	4
More than 300 pieces...........................................................................	5
If not in cases, crates, bundles or packages—
For each 1,000 super. feet....................................................................	5
(b) Box shooks—
For each 100 packages................................................................................	10
8	Rough sawn timber (including dunnage)—
For each 1,000 super. feet or part of 1,000 super. feet...........................................	10
9	Logs, spars in the rough and rough sawn timber exceeding 180 square inches cross section—
For each log, spar or piece..................................................................................	10
10	Plants and goods for which a fee is not elsewhere prescribed in this Schedule—
For each half of an hour or part of half of an hour, occupied in the inspection or examination.....................................................................................................................	50

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