Quarantine Regulations 1909 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 25.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Quarantine Act 1908 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this eleventh day of February, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. W. BEST,

Minister for Trade and Customs.

 

Inspection Fees—Section 64.

Regulation 105 of the Quarantine Regulations shall be deemed to have been repealed as on and from the first day of February, 1910, and the following Regulation substituted therefor:—

105. Provided that the charges for any separate inspection under this Regulation shall not be less than sixpence, the fees for inspection of imported plants shall be as hereunder set out. The said fees shall be charged according to net weight where fixed by weight, and shall be paid before delivery of the plants:—

(a) Growing Plants and Cuttings—

1d. per plant for each consignment of not more than 10 plants in pots or similar packages; 1s. for each consignment containing more than 10 plants but not more than 50; 2s. for each consignment containing more than 50 plants but not more than 100; 1s. for each additional 100 plants up to 500 in each consignment; 1s. for each additional 500 plants up to 20,000 in each consignment; 1s. for each 1,000 plants above 20,000 in each consignment.

(b) Fresh Fruit—

Bananas, in bunches, ½d. per bunch.

Fruit, in cases or other packages, 1d. per package weighing half a cental or less; 2d. per package weighing more than half a cental.

(c) Dried Fruit—

Dried fruit, such as raisins, currants, prunes, figs, dates, and apples (other than in air-tight bottles, tins, or similar retail packages), 1d. per cental up to 40 centals; 6d. per 20 centals, or part thereof, above 40 centals.

C.2984.—Price 3d.

(d) Cereals, Pulse, and other Seeds—

Cereals, pulse, vegetable and similar seeds, in bulk or in wholesale packages, ½d. per cental up to 100 centals; 3d. per 20 centals, or part thereof, from 100 to 400 centals in each consignment; 1d. per 20 centals, or part thereof, above 400 centals in each consignment.

(e) Nuts—

Cocoa nuts, 1d. per cental, or part thereof, up to 20 centals; 3d. per 20 centals, or part thereof, above 20 centals in each consignment.

Nuts, such as walnuts, filberts, peanuts, and Brazil nuts, 1d. per cental up to 20 centals; 6d. per 20 centals, or part thereof, above 20 centals in each consignment.

(f) Vegetables, Bulbs, & c.—

Vegetables, including onions, potatoes, corms, rhizomes, bulbs and tubers generally, 1d. per cental up to 100 centals; 2d. per 20 centals, or part thereof, above 100 centals in each consignment.

(g)Parts of plants partially treated in preparation for food-stuffs, such as nut-megs, hulled coffee beans, cocoa beans, pepper, pimento, hops, imported for manufacture into food-stuffs or similar purpose. Free—unless found affected with disease, when the charge shall be 2d. per cental.

(h) Plants by Parcel Post. Free.

 

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