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corm, niber, bulb, stem, leaf, cutting, bud, graft, seed, fruit, or any portion 
thereof. 
"Fruit" means any edible product of any plant and includes the peel, skin, or 
shell of fruit. 
"Diseases of plants"' means any insect, pest, or disease in any form or stage of 
development which is or may be injurious to plants. 
INSPECTION AND TREATMENT OF JMPORTEI) PLANTS 
Art. 2. Landing of plants. — No officer of customs shall permit plants to be 
landed from a vessel except on the written instruction of an inspector. 
Art. 3. Imported plants finhjcct to uuspection. — All plants, and the packages and 
the wrappings that contain or have contained the same, imported into the Colony 
shall be liable to detention and examination by {in inspector and shall be subject 
to the following treatment : 
(a • Plants affected by any species of fruitfly or borer shall be destroyed forth- 
with. 
(h> Plants affected by any Insect pest, other than fruitfly or borer, shall be 
fumigated under the directions of an inspector. 
Art. 4. Restrict mis on entry of soil. — No soil shall be imported into the Colony 
except with the written permission first obtained of the Director of Agriculture. 
Provided that all soil so imported shall be fumigated with carbon disulphide under 
the direction and to the satisfaction of an inspector. 
Art. 5. (1) Inspector's certificate necessary fw release of plants. — After the 
inspection and treatment, if any, of plants brought into the Colony, an inspector 
shall issue a certificate setting forth that the plants have been inspected and 
fumigated or otherwise treated and showing the sums payable in respect of the 
fumigation or other treatment, if such has been given. 
(2) Upon presentation to the proper officer of customs of an inspector's cer- 
tificate, together with an acknowledgment of the payment of fees, if any, due in 
respect of treatment of plants, an importer may with such officer's consent remove 
from the fumigating station the articles to which the certificate relates. 
Art. 6. Plants not included in certificate Jiahle to seizure and destruction. — 
All imported plants and the packages or wrappings that contain or have contained 
them may be seized and destroyed by direction of an inspector if, on demand made 
by an inspector or ciistoms officer, sufficient evidence of their being included in 
the certificate issued in the country of origin or export is not given by their 
importer. 
Special Regulations 
[Proclamation No. 4. .Jjuiuary 18, 193*1] 
Import permit required. — The importation of all plants into the Colony is pro- 
hibited unless a written permit for their importation is first obtained from the 
Director of Agriculture in which permit the conditions of such importation may be 
specified. Provided that the following plants may be imported without permits. 
EXCEPTIONS 
{a) All plants imported from Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, 
and the United States of America, except those specified in schedule 1, provided 
that permits shall be required in respect of the fruits of the plants set out in 
schedule 2 imported from Australia and in respect of growing plants of the 
natural order Rosaceae imported from Canada, New Zealand, and the United 
States. 
(&) Copra from the Kingdom of Tonga. 
Certification of forage crop seeds and plants required. — Importations of seeds, 
live stems, and whole plants of pasture and fodder grasses and clovers shall be 
accompanied by certificates in the form set out in schedule 3, signed by a respon- 
sible oflicer of the Department of Agricidture of the country in which they were 
grown, certifying that the district in which they were produced is entirely free 
from cattle tick infestation. 
Unrestricted plant products. — The provisions of this proclnmation shall not 
apply to fibers in an unmanufactured condition or to any parts of plants which 
have undergone any process of manufacture, except copra, provided that they are 
not in a damp or decomposed condition. 
Plant material may he .seized and destroyed or disinfected. — The Director of 
Agriculture, at his discretion, may decline to issue a permit, and he or an inspec- 
