EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1932 NO.178
QUARANTINE ACT 1908
QUARANTINE (PLANTS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Health
Sub-section 87(1) of the Quarantine Act 1908 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Attorney-General’s Department is undertaking a program of reprinting all Statutory Rules. Before any particular set of Statutory Rules is reprinted it is desirable to make necessary drafting and updating amendments of a procedural nature. Such amendments do not involve any policy considerations. The amendments are concerned with:
metric conversion of certain weights and measures;
• repeal of unnecessary matter;
• correction of errors and the making of other changes of a formal nature.
The Statutory Rules make a number of such amendments to the Quarantine (Plants) Regulations.