102 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept 
DEFINITIONS 
Regulation 3. In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears — 
"Diseases" means affected with disease and includes showing the presence or 
evidence of any deteriorated or abnormal condition, whether dependent on the 
presence of or due to the operation, development, growth, or effect of any disease. 
"Pest" includes weed pest as well as insect pest. 
"Plant" means plants of any kind or size, and includes cuttings, slips, and 
buds, the fruit and seeds, and all live parts of plants. 
NOTICE OF ARRIVAL KEQUTEED 
Regulation 4. Any person desirous of landing any imported plants shall give 
to the quarantine officer at the port of landing a notice and a declaration in 
prescribed form. (Form Q-P-l — Importers' Notice.) 
Regulation 5. No person shall import any timber (either logs or sawn timber) 
unless he has given to the quarantine officer at the port of entry a notice and 
declaration in prescribed form. (Form Q-P-2 — Timber Importers' Notice.) 
treatment and reconditioning of imported fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals, 
Regulation 16. Any imported fruit, vegetables (including tubers, bulbs, 
corms, and rhizomes), nuts, cereals, pulse, or other seed, of which any propor- 
tion is, on inspection by a quarantine officer, found to be, or suspected of being 
affected with a disease, or any cereals, pulse, or other seed found on inspection 
to be mixed with a seed of a proclaimed weed pest, shall be ordered into quar- 
antine and, under the supervision of a quarantine officer may be treated as 
prescribed, or as the chief quarantine officer may direct, or be sorted at a quar- 
antine station or other approved place, subject to prescribed conditions. 
imported plants may be placed in quarantine 
Regulation 17. Any plant not otherwise provided for in the regulations shall 
be retained in quarantine for such period as the chief quarantine inspector 
deems necessary, having regard to the nature and condition of the plant and 
the place from which it comes. 
DOCUMENTS TO BE FURNISHED ON ARRIVAL 
Regulation 21. Any person desirous of landing any imported plant shall, at 
the time of giving notice, as required by regulation 4, furnish also the following 
declarations, certificates, notices, and permits, and comply with the following 
conditions : 
Special Requirements 
banana fruit restrictions 
A. Banana fruits from Fiji: A certificate dated and signed by a responsible 
officer of the Fiji Department of Agriculture affirming the freedom of the ba- 
nanas from disease. 
CITRUS FRUIT RESTRICTIONS 10 
B. (1) Citrus fruits from any country in which citrus canker (Bacterium 
(Pseudomonas) citri (Hasse) Doidge) does not exist: A certificate dated and 
signed by a responsible officer of the Department of Agriculture of the country 
of origin certifying that: (a) The fruit was grown in the country specified; 
(6) the consignment is free from canker; (c) the fruit, after picking and prior 
to packing was effectively fumigated with hydrogen cyanide gas or by such 
other gas or method as is prescribed or approved by the director of quarantine. 
(2) Pips, imported as pips: The certificate shall certify the country of origin, 
the occurrence of, or freedom from citrus canker in the said country, the nature 
of the preparation and treatment of the pips, and that the pips are clean and 
free from pulp. (As amended by the amendment of quarantine (plants) regu- 
lations of March 17, 1937 ; gazetted March 18, 1937. ) 
10 Citrus fruit from California would be admitted under these conditions. (Letter of 
Director General of Health, March 21, 1938.) 
