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AN ACT TO FURTHER IMPROVE THE SAN JOSE SCALE ACT. 



Assented to April 1st, 1899. 



Short title. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative As- 

 sembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : 



1. This Act may be cited as The San Jose Scale Amendment Act. 



2. Section 7 of The San Jose Scale Act, 1898, is hereby amended by J^f J 3, 8 ' 7 

 adding the following sub-section : 



(a) If, in the case of an orchard or collection of plants, the inspector finds Destruction 

 scale on plants located in several different parts of the orchard or collection, plants. 

 and decides that it is advisable in the public interest to destroy all the plants 

 in such orchard or in any part or parts thereof and so reports to the Minister, 

 the Minister may direct that an examination or inspection shall be made by 

 an additional inspector, and upon their advice in writing he may direct that 

 all the plants in such orchard or such collection of plants or in such part or 

 parts thereof shall be destroyed without requiring that every plant in the said 

 orchard or collection shall be first examined. 



3. The owner or proprietor of any nursery shall not send out or permit f um ig a ted be- 

 any plant to be removed from his nursery without the same being first f umi- fore leaving 

 gated by hydrocyanic acid gas in accordance with regulations prescribed by nur ° er y- 

 order of the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Oouncil. 



4. No person shall sell or dispose of or offer for sale any plant obtained, \^° e fumLa- 

 taken, or sent out from a nursery unless the said plant has previously been tion prohibited 

 fumigated in accordance with these regulations. 



5. In case the inspector finds scale in any nursery and so reports to the nursery- 

 Minister, the Minister may thereupon inform, by writing, the owner or pro- stock not to 

 prietor or manager of said nursery of the existence of scale in his nursery, and b %i em ^ ed 

 the owner or proprietor or manager of said nursery shall not thereafter permit 0I Minister. 

 any plant or plants to be removed from the said, nursery until he is notified 



in writing from the Minister that the inspector has reported to the Minister 



that it is safe in the public interest to permit the said nursery stock to be 



removed after fumigation. 



Act incorpor- 



6. This Act and The San Jose Scale Act, 1898, shall be read and construed ated with 61 

 as one Act. v - c - 33 



(For the San Jose Scale Act, 1898, see Report of 1897 ) 



