STATUTORY RULES.
1921. No. 98.
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REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1920.
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 1908-1920, to come into operation on 1st June, 1931.
Dated the sixth day of May, 1921.
FORSTER,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
W. MASSY GREENE,
Minister for Health.
Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 1917.
The Quarantine Regulations 1917 (Statutory Rules 1917, No. 112, and Statutory Rules 1920, No. 16) are amended—
(1) By repealing regulation 128 and inserting the following regulations 128 and 128a in its stead:—
128. Provided that the charges for any separate inspection under this regulation shall not be less than one shilling (1s.) 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—
Twopence (2d.) per plant for each consignment of not more than 10 plants in pots or similar packages; two shillings (2s.) for each consignment containing more than 10 plants but not more than 50; three shillings (3s.) for each consignment containing more than 50 plants but not more than 100; two shillings (2s.) for each additional 100 plants up to 500 in each consignment; two shillings (2s.) for each additional 500 plants up to 20,000 in each consignment; two shillings (2s.) for each 1,000 plants above 20,000 in each consignment.
(b) Cuttings, Stocks, and Scions—
One shilling (1s.) per 1,000 or part thereof up to 5,000, and sixpence (6d.) per 1,000 or part thereof for any additional quantity.
(c) Fresh Fruit—
Bananas, in bunches, one penny (1d.) per bunch. Fruit in cases or other packages, twopence (2d.) per package weighing half a cental or less; fourpence (4d.) per package weighing more than half a cental.
(d) Dried Fruit—
Dried fruit, such as raisins, currants, prunes, figs, dates and apples (other than in air-tight bottles, tins, or similar retail packages); one penny (1d.) per package weighing half a cental or less; twopence (2d.) per package weighing more than half a cental.
(e) Cereals, Pulse, and Other Seeds—
Cereals, pulse, vegetable and similar seeds, in bulk or in wholesale packages, one penny (1d.) per cental up to 100 centals; sixpence (6d.) per 20 centals or part thereof, from 100 to 400 centals in each consignment; twopence (2d.) per 20 centals or part thereof above 400 centals in each consignment.
(f) Nuts—
Cocoanuts, one penny (1d.) per cental, or part thereof up to 20 centals; threepence (3d.) for 20 centals or part thereof above 20 centals in each consignment. Nuts, such as walnuts, filberts, peanuts and Brazil nuts, twopence (2d.) per cental or part thereof
(g) Vegetables, Bulbs, &c.—
Vegetables, including onions, potatoes, corms, rhizomes, bulbs, and tubers generally, twopence (2d.) per cental up to 100 centals; twopence (2d.) per 10 centals or part thereof above 100 centals in each consignment.
(h) Parts of Plants partially treated in preparation for foodstuffs, or goods as follows:—Cassia chips, cinnamon, coffee beans, (hulled), cocoa beans, chicory, copra, cloves, cotton (raw), flour, bran, pollard, sharps, ginger (dry, limed, or preserved), hops, kola nuts, lentils (split), mace, nutmegs, oilcake, pepper, pimento, rice, sago, tapioca root (dried), turmeric, tonquin beans, vanilla beans, vegetables (dried):—The following charges are to be made when the Chief Quarantine Officer considers inspection necessary:—Twopence (2d.) per cental up to 100 centals; sixpence (6d.) per 20 centals or part thereof from 100 to 400 centals in each consignment; twopence (2d.) per 20 centals or part thereof above 400 centals in each consignment.
(i) Plants (including parcels of seeds under 1 lb. in weight) arriving by parcels post or in passengers’ luggage: —Free, unless the Quarantine Officer is of opinion that examination or other action is necessary, in which case a fee of one shilling (1s.) per parcel shall be paid.
(j) Plants (including parcels of seeds of 1 lb. or more in weight) arriving by parcels post or in passengers’ luggage:—Seeds, one shilling (1s.) per 10 lbs. or part thereof; one shilling (1s.) for every additional 10 lbs. or part thereof; other plants, one shilling and ninepence (1s. 9d.) per 100 plants or part thereof up to 200, and sixpence (6d.) per 100 above 200 in one parcel.
(k) Plants from Norfolk Island: Free.
128a. Fees as follows shall be paid by the importer for the fumigation of plants:—
(1) For fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas:—
(a) Fruit—
Per case of one bushel or under, twopence (2d.).
Per case of more than one bushel, threepence (3d.).
(b)Growing plants, cuttings, stocks and scions—
Per square foot or part thereof of floor space occupied by the packages containing the plants, fourpence (4d.).
(c) Seeds and Cereals—
Per bag, sixpence (6d.).
(2) For fumigation with bi-sulphide of carbon:—Seeds, cereals, nuts, &c., in bags or cases, one shilling (1s.) per bag or case.
(3) If the seeds, cereals, nuts, &c., are required to be fumigated loose, the actual cost of labour incurred in emptying, spreading, &c., will be charged in addition to the above charge of one shilling (1s.) per bag.
(4) The minimum charge shall be sixpence (6d.).
(2) By omitting from the 7th line of paragraph (e) of regulation 143, the words “2s. per hour” and inserting in their stead the words “three shillings (3s.) per hour”;
(3) By repealing the figure “2” in lines 5 and 6 of regulation 146 (2), and inserting in its stead the figure “3”.
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