Quarantine (Plants) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No. 117.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1961.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of 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 twenty seventh day of August, 1964.

E. W. WOODWARD

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(SGD.) H. W. WADE

Minister of State for Health

 

Amendments of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations.

1. After regulation 7c of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Fees for holding plants at a Commonwealth quarantine station.

“7d. Where plants are detained at a quarantine station for the performance of quarantine by plants, being a quarantine station provided by the Commonwealth, a fee, for maintaining the plants while at the quarantine station, of Five shillings or calculated at the rate of Ten shillings per square foot of ground space or shelf space occupied by the containers in which the plants are growing, whichever is the greater, is payable by the importer of the plants to the Commonwealth.”.

Treating and reconditioning plants and goods.

2. Regulation 16 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “treated as prescribed (or as the Chief Quarantine Officer may direct), or”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) the words “before delivery, be disinfected as prescribed or to the satisfaction of the Chief Quarantine Officer, or shall” and inserting in their stead the words “unless treated as directed under section 56 of the Act to the satisfaction of the Chief Quarantine Officer,”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28th August, 1964.

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

6326/64.—Price 6d. 9/7.8.1964.

Certificates, permits, etc.

3. Regulation 21 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-paragraph (1.) of paragraph b the words “prescribed or”;

(b)by omitting from that sub-paragraph the words “, and shall be subjected to fumigation as prescribed or”and inserting in their stead the word “and,”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (q)of the definition of “seed” in sub-paragraph (1.) of paragraph f the word “or”; and

(d) by adding at the end of that definition the following paragraphs:—

“(s) the genus Agropyron; or

“(t) the genus Helianthus.”.

Permits, conditions and restrictions relating to potatoes.

4. Regulation 21d of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a)of sub-regulation (2.) the word “and”; and

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (a)of that sub-regulation the following word and paragraph:—

“; and (iv) the ‘Golden Nematode’ —Heterodera rostochiensis (Wr.);”.

Nursery stock free from soil.

5. Regulation 25 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) Where any goods, not being plants referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation, that contain, or have adhering to them, soil, earth or sand are ordered into quarantine, the goods are subject to treatment, by being washed in water or by being treated in such other manner as the Director of Quarantine directs, for the purpose of removing that soil, earth or sand.”.

Repeal of regulations 29 and 30.

6. Regulations 29 and 30 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations are repealed.

Disinfection of cases, bags and similar packages.

7. Regulation 31 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “as is prescribed” and inserting in their stead the words “as is required under section 56 of the Act”.

Entering and removing goods from Quarantine Station.

8. Regulation 34 of the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is amended by omitting all words after the word “charge”.

The Third Schedule.

9. The Third Schedule to the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations is repealed.

 

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