232 BUREAU OF ENT0:M0L0GY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
B. E. P. Q. 432. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS 
COLONY 
April 1, 1937. 
This summary of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of the Gilbert and 
EUice Islands Colony has been prepared for the information of nurserymen, 
plant-quarantine officials, and others interested in the exportation of plants and 
plant products to that colony. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector in charge, For- 
eign Information Service, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from the texts 
of Plants Ordinance No. 5 of 1929, and proclamations promulgated thereunder, 
and reviewed by the office of the resident commissioner of the colony. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and 
complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not to be used independently of, 
nor as a substitute for, the original texts, and it is not to be interpreted as 
legally authoritative. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS 
COLONY 
Basic Legislation 
The Plants Ordinance No. 5 of June 19, 1929. 
Summary 
importation prohibited 
All plants: Importation prohibited from Samoa. (Sec. 6 (2) of Plants Ordi- 
nance No. 5 of 1929.) 
All plants : Importation prohibited from Uea or Wallis Island, the adjacent 
islets, and Horne Islands (Fotuna and Alofa). (Proclamation No. 4 of Jan. 
29, 1931.) 
importation restricted 
Plants from any nonprohibited source: "Written permission of the resident 
commissioner required. (See Sec. 3 of Plants Ordinance No. 5 of June 19, 1929, 
p. 2.) Phytosanitary certificate required. (Letter of commissioner, August 23, 
1935.) 
General Regulations 
[Plants Ordinance No. 5, June 19, 3^929] 
Section 1. This ordinance may be cited as the Plants Ordinance, 1929. 
DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 2. In this ordinance "Plants" includes any tree, shrub, or plant, or por- 
tion thereof, such as cuttings, buds, roots, tubers, bulbs, seeds, leaves, bark, 
fiber, fruit, and vegetables, whether fresh, dried, or otherwise treated. "Plants 
affected with insect pest or disease" includes the packages or wrappings that 
may contain or have contained the same, in or on which any insect pest or dis- 
^-ase is or has been present in any form or stage of development, or with which 
any plant or part thereof, or package or wrapping has come in contact. 
WRITTEN PERMIT REQUIRED TO IMPORT PLANTS ' 
Sec. 3. No person shall introduce or attempt to introduce into the colony any 
plants from a place from which the importation of plants has not been pro- 
'A phytosanitary certificate in prescribed form issued by a duly authorized inspector 
is also re(]uired with each shipment. (Letter of resident commissioner, Aug. 23, 1935. 
See appendix, p. 3.) 
