LAW AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING PLANT 
QUARANTINE SERVICE IN JAPAN. 
THE PLANT QUARANTINE LAW. 
(Law No. 11, promulgated on March 25th, 1914.) 
Article I 
Every person who exports plants from Japan Proper (Hondo, Kiushiu, 
Shikoku, Hokkaido and dependent islands) to a foreign country or who imports 
the same from a foreign country into Japan Proper and also every person who 
transports plants from Japan Proper to other parts of the Japanese Empire 
(Taiwan, Chosen and Karafuto) or transports the same from other parts of the 
Japanese Empire into Japan Proper shall be required to submit such plants, 
together with the packages or the articles used for packing thereof, to be 
inspected by the Plant Inspection Officials. 
In case, however, the inspection mentioned in the preceding paragraph is 
deemed not to be necessary from the view-point of supervision, the same may 
be omitted in accordance with provisions of an ordinance. ‘ 
No article being imported from a foreign country, or being transported 
from other parts of the Japanese Empire into Japan Proper in violation of the 
provision of the above Ist paragraph, shall be permitted to be received. 
Plants that are required to be inspected in accordance with the provision of 
the above Ist paragraph shall be defined by an ordinance. 
Article IT 
When the Plant Inspection Officials, in course of their inspection in 
pursuance of the provisioris of the above Article, are in fear that plant diseases 
of injurious insécts are probably present on certain articles, they may inspect 
the same, though such articles may not come under the category covered by the 
pravision of the above Article, 
Article IIT 
No plant diseases or injurious insects shall be allowed to be imported from 
a foreign country into Japan Prop:r or to be trinsported from other parts of the 
