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THE PLANT PROTECTION ORDINANCE. 



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packages, coverings, or other articles or things named or specified in 

 •such proclamation shall not be imported into the Colony except upon 

 such conditions as may be specified in such proclamation. 



6. Every plant, article or thing imported into this Colony in contra- Seizure. 

 vention of any proclamation under this Ordinance, or of any of the 

 conditions imposed thereby may be seized by any officer of Customs or 



by the Chief Inspector or any inspector and shall thereupon become 

 forfeited to His Majesty and may be destroyed or otherwise dealt with 

 as the Governor may direct. 



7. Every nursery shall be registered by the owner or occupier thereof Nurseries — 

 at the office of the Chief Inspector on or before the first day of May in registration of . 

 each year. 



8. Every nursery shall be inspected at least twice a year by the Chief 

 Inspector or by an inspector appointed by him to fulfil that duty, and at 

 such other times as the Chief Inspector shall deem necessary. 



9. The Chief Inspector or any inspector may declare under 

 quarantine any nursery or such part of any nursery as lies within twenty 

 yards of any tree, shrub or herb which he finds infected by disease, or 

 infested with pests, or within thirty yards if such infected or infested 

 tree, shrub or herb is over ten feet in height ; and such area shall be 

 held and deemed to be under quarantine accordingly. 



10. A quarantine declared under the last preceding section shall 

 remain in force until the Chief Inspector shall have given to the owner 

 or occupier of the nursery affected his written certificate to the effect 

 that the trees, shrubs and herbs within such quarantined area are free 

 from disease and pest, and during such period of quarantine it shall not 

 be lawful for any person to remove or cause to be removed from such 

 nursery any tree, shrub or herb or any parts thereof or any soil, manure, 

 plant cases, wrappings or packing materials from the quarantined area. 



11. Any owner or occupier of a nursery having his nursery or any 

 part thereof thus placed under quarantine may upon application to the 

 Chief Inspector have his nursery examined free of chai-ge to determine 

 whether or not he has been successful in eradicating the disease or pest. 



12. The Chief Inspector or any inspector may at all reasonable times 

 enter without notice (with or without assistants as may to the person 

 making entry seem fit) upon any nurseries, land or plantations or into 

 any building or part of any building not being a dwelling house for the 

 purpose of searching for and examining any animal or vegetable 

 organism or any diseased or pest-infested tree, shrub or herb or any soil, 

 manure, plant cases, wrappings or packing materials, and may remain 

 thereon or therein so long as may be reasonably necessary for any such 

 purpose. 



13. The Chief Inspector or any inspector authorised by him in writing 

 for that purpose may issue an order in writing in the form in the 

 Schedule hereto (^) to the occupier, or if there be no occupier, to tiie 



{}) Not reprinted. 



Inspection of 

 nurseries. 



Quarantine 

 nurseries. 



Quarantine of 

 nurseries — 

 contravention 

 of. 



Examination 

 of quarantined 

 nurseries. 



Plantations — 

 ])ower to 

 enter. 



I'locedure for 

 eradication of 

 diseases and 

 pests. 



