238 l^UREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
(c) Plants other than cocoa from Central America, South America, and West 
Indies and other countries in which vvitches'-broom disease of cocoa (Marasmius 
pcr>ticio,si(s Stahel) is known to occur, except plants required and imported 
by the Agricultural Department for scientific purposes. 
{(I) Coconuts in husk from Central America, South America, Trinidad and 
Tobago, Grenada, and St. Vincent (West Indies). 
(e) Coffee berries unless accompanied by a certificate of freedom from mealy 
pod disease {Trachi/sphaera fructigena Tabor and Bunting), issued by the 
government agricultural authority of the country of export. 
(/) Cottonseed except seed free from lint. 
INSPECTION ON ARRIVAL 
Art. 5. (1) (a) Any plant or seed, except seeds, bulbs, tubers, or corms of 
vegetables or ornamental plants from temperate countries, or dry hulled rice, 
coffee, or pulses for consumption, and any accompanying container brought 
to Gambia by steamer, mail, or other channel, before being delivered, may be 
examined by a customs officer to ascertain whether the importation of the 
plant or seed is forbidden or subject to restriction. 
(2) and (3) Provide for the disposal of infected or prohibited material. 
Conditions Governing Importation 
.IMPORT permit required 
Art. 6. Importations of plants and seeds of cocoa, cotton, cassava, and all 
species of Mnsa; plants (not seeds) of oil palms and all species of citrus shall 
be permitted from countries of the Plant Interchange Schedule only under 
permit signed by the senior agricultural superintendent, obtained in advance 
of shipment, and in accordance with any special conditions that may be pre- 
scribed in such permit. 
Importations of plants and seeds indicated in the preceding paragraph and 
plants (not seeds) of coconut, and kola, plants and seeds of coffee (except 
hulled and dried berries for consumption), groundnuts (peanuts), yams, rice 
(except hulled rice for consumption), pulses (except dried, shelled seeds for 
consumption), guinea corn (broomcorn), millets, maize, and rubber, from coun- 
tries other than those of the Plant Interchange Schedule shall be permitted 
only under permit signed by the senior agricultural superintendent first ob- 
tained and in accordance with any special conditions prescribed in the permit. 
Such a permit will be issued only for the plants indicated in the preceding 
paragraph when they are needed for special scientific purposes and are grown 
tinder official supervision. 
No permit shall be required for the importation of the plants indicated in the 
second paragraph of this article from countries of the Plant Interchange 
Schedule. 
Art. 7. Relates to applications for import permits. 
Art. 8. Import permits shall be in prescribed form. 
PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATES REQUIRED 
Art. 9. Health certificates required from Government agricultural authorities to 
accompany imports by any permit issued under these regulations shall, so far as 
practicable, be in the form prescribed below or substantially so. 
PRESCRIBED FORM OF CERTIFICATE* 
This is to certify that the living plants or plant products (a representative 
sample of the living plant or plant products) included in the consignment, of 
which particulars are given below, were/was thoroughly examined on the (date) 
by (name of inspector) , a duly authorized official of the 
(name of inspection service), and found to be healthy, no evidence of 
the presence of any injurious insect pest or disease destructive to vegetation/de- 
structive to agricultural or horticultural croi)s being found in/on them, and that 
the consignment (including the packing) covered by this certificate has/has not 
3 The words that are not applicable are to be omitted. 
