10 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA : 



All such potatoes or tomatoes aforesaid imported under the conditions aforesaid 

 shall be again inspected in Melbourne, or other approved place of entry, by an 

 inspector of the Victorian Department of Agriculture, and if found to be free from 

 Irish Blight and other proclaimed diseases may be removed therefrom on payment 

 of inspection fees as prescribed. 



In the event of Irish Blight being found in any stage of development on any 

 part of the consignment, the whole of such consignment shall be condemned by 

 an inspector in Melbourne or other approved place of entry, and no part of such 

 consignment shall be allowed to be removed from the wharf or other place of 

 entry, but the whole consignment must be taken back to the port of shipment at 

 the expense of the consignee. 



Importation of Slightly Diseased Fruit. 



14. Fruit which is found, on inspection, to be slightly diseased may be imported 

 into Victoria from any other State or territory of the Commonwealth of Australia 

 for manufacturing purposes only by bond fide fruit preservers upon the following 

 conditions, viz. : — ■ 



(a) Such fruit shall be inspected by an inspector, and may be rejected. 



(b) If passed by the inspector, such fruit shall be taken forthwith to any 



fruit- preserving factory approved by the inspector in charge, and there 

 manufactured ; the refuse of all such fruit shall be absolutely destroyed 

 in such manner as the inspector may direct ; all receptacles in which 

 such fruit has been carried shall forthwith be either destroyed by fire 

 or otherwise treated at the factory, to destroy all fruit diseases to the 

 satisfaction of an officer of the Department of Agriculture. 



(f ) No such fruit shall be sold or distributed unless in a manufactured state. 



(d) The manufacturer shall enter into a bond, with two approved sureties in 

 the sum of £100, to observe the foregoing conditions. 



15. If it is found by the inspector that any case or cases of imported fruit which 

 have been condemned contain a fair proportion of fruit which is sound and free 

 from disease, and also some fruit which is but slightly diseased, the contents of 

 such cases may be sorted at any approved place under the supervision of an 

 inspector under the following conditions, viz. : — 



(«) Such case or cases with their contents shall be taken forthwith from the 

 place of inspection to the approved place aforesaid. 



(h) When sorted, fruit which is free from disease may be repacked in clean 

 cases and disposed of in the ordinary way, while slightly diseased fruit 

 may be disposed of to the fruit preservers, when it shall be subject to 

 all the conditions contained in Regulation 14 above mentioned. 



(c) All fruit which after sorting shall be deemed by the inspector to be unfit, 



by reason of disease, for either of the foregoing purposes, shall be 

 destroyed at the importer's or consignee's expense. 



(d) A charge not exceeding Threepence per case or package shall be made 



to cover the cost of sorting. 



Penalties. 

 lti. Any person who shall be guilty of a breach of, or shall fail to comply with, 

 these Regulations shall be liable to a penalty for the first offence not exceeding 

 One pound, and for any subsequent offence not exceeding Ten pounds. 



