1938] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 35 
Forestry the certification requirement may be waived. (Proclamation No. 286 
of 1936.) 
IMPORTATION UNRESTRICTED 
Fruits, seeds (except those specially restricted or prohibited), bulbs, tubers, 
and vegetables. However, admissible fruits are inspected and may be rejected 
if any serious pest is found on them. Consignments of apples are refused entry 
if more than 5 percent are infested by codling moth or infected by one Fusicladium 
spot over one-eighth inch in diameter to 10 fruits. Affected fruits may be picked 
out and clean ones passed. Fruit will be fumigated if more than one San Jose 
scale or oystershell scale found per fruit. 
Rules Governing the Issuance of Import Permits 
[Government notice No. 1793 of 1936, as amended by Government notice No. 677, April 
30, 1937] 
NUMBER OF PLANTS LIMITED 
1. No permit shall be issued to any one person to introduce into the Union 
during any one calendar year from oversea or from Portuguese East Africa, the 
mandated territory of South West Africa or any State or Territory in Africa 
north of the Zambesi, except Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, or, in the case of 
plants other than maize and barley, the Belgian Congo : 
(a) More than 10 plants of any 1 variety of : 
(1) Rooted forest trees, ornamental trees, nut trees, rose trees, fruit trees, 
and fruit-bearing plants (not including strawberries). 
(2) Ornamental shrubs, 3 including azaleas, rhododendrons, camelias, hydran- 
geas, spireas, lilacs, and oleanders. 
(3) Climbing plants, including clematis, begonias, passifloras, wistarias, honey- 
suckles, jasminums, and solanums, or 
(&) More than 100 plants of any 1 variety of: 
(1) Strawberry plants. 
(2) Scions or unrooted cuttings of any tree, woody shrub, or sugarcane, or 
(c) More than 10 pounds of any 1 variety of maize or barley. 
2. Nothing contained in the above regulation shall prevent the Department 
from: 
(a) Introducing stocks, which it may consider of exceptional or special value, 
into the Union in excess of the number above stipulated for budding or grafting, 
or issuing a permit to any person for special reasons and subject to such condi- 
tions as it may determine, to introduce into the Union any stocks in excess of the 
number provided in this regulation ; 
(&) Issuing permits to any person to introduce into the Union Backhousia 
oitriodora plants in excess of the maximum provided in this regulation, on 
condition that such plants be kept in quarantine, at a place approved by the 
Department, for a period of 2 years or such lesser period as the Department may 
direct: Provided, That the Department, if it deems expedient, may destroy with- 
out compensation to the owner all the plants so introduced, together with the 
progeny thereof. 
(c) Issuing permits for the introduction of maize in bulk in times of shortage, 
and subject to such conditions as the Department may determine. 
3. No permit shall be issued to any person to introduce into the Union: 
(«) Any kind of tree or plant ordinarily raised from seed, if the seed be 
easily procurable in the Union or can be readily introduced in a viable 
condition. 
(?>) Any variety of tree or fruit-bearing plant or rose plant listed by nursery- 
men within the Union, and procurable from them at or below the ordinary 
price for recent novelties of its class, unless the Department is satisfied that 
the strain of the variety procurable in the Union is an inferior one or untrue 
to type. 
(r) Any rooted sugarcane plants. 
However, the Department may issue a permit for the introduction of any 
tree or plant specified in either subparagraphs (a) or (M of paragraph (3) in 
any case where tbe Department is satisfied that for special reasons such intro- 
duction should be exempted from the prohibition of that paragraph. 
3 Permits are not issued for species of Berbcris that are intermediate hosts of Puccinia 
gramini8 Pers., black stem rust of wheat. 
