20 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE tJan.-March 
Plants for scientific purposes: Unrestricted except that an import permit 
must be obtained from the director of agriculture. (Art. 12, importation of 
plants law of January 7, 1925, p. 3.) 
EXPORTATION PROHIBITED 
Palm tree shoots: Exportation from Iraq prohibited. (Law No. 1, February 
11, 1935, p. 6.) 
General Regulations 
(Importation of Plants Law of January 7, 1925) 
Article 1. This law may be cited as "The Importation of Plants Law, 1924." 
DEFINITION 
Art. 2. "Plant" means all plants with woody stems and all parts thereof, 
such as stocks, nursery plants, scions, layers, and cuttings thereof ; cottonseed 
and seed cotton ; bulbs, corins, rhizomes, and tubers, except potatoes. 
INSPECTION ON ARRIVAL 
Art. 3. All plants imported into Iraq by mail or otherwise will be held for 
inspection by a Government inspector, as prescribed in article 5. 
INFECTED PLANTS DISINFECTED OR DESTROYED 
Art. 4. Should it be found that plants are attacked by any of the diseases 
named in the appendix hereto, or should a portion of the plants concerned be 
so attacked, the Government inspector may order their disinfection or de- 
struction. 
INSPECTION MAY BE WAIVED IF PLANTS ACCOMPANIED BY CERTIFICATES 
Art. 5. The Government inspector may, in his discretion, pass without inspec- 
tion any plants or consignments of plants which are accompanied by a certifi- 
cate of a competent branch of the agricultural institute of the exporting coun- 
try, affirming that they are free from the diseases named in the appendix. 
Art. 6, All expenses involved in inspection, detention, disinfection, or de- 
struction of plants shall be borne by the importer. 
Art. 7. Provides for the inspection of plants for export. 
Art. 8. Relates to fees for inspection, etc. 
Art. 9. Provides for the promulgation or modification of administrative 
decrees. 
Art. 10. The Minister of the Interior may order the destruction by burning 
of all plants in which epidemic diseases are found. 
Art. 11. Relates to violations and penalties. 
Importation of Plants for Scientific Purposes not Restricted 
Art. 12. No provision of this law is applicable to plants imported for scien- 
tific research on the basis of a separate (special) permit of the director of 
agriculture. In this permit it will be expressly stated the plants shall not be 
inspected. 
Appendix 
Inspect pests: 
Anthonomus grandis Boh., boll weevil. 
(Aspidiotxs) Chrysomphalus aurantii Mask., California red scale. 
Aspidiotus pemitiosus Comst., San Jose scale. 
Ceratitis capitata Wied., Mediterranean fruitfly. 
Chionaspis furfura Fitch, scurfy scale. 
Conotrachelus nenuphar Hbst., plum curculio. 
