1938] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS H3 
Federated Malay States 
[Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, and Selangor] 
BASIC LEGISLATION 
[Customs Enactment of 1936; Gazette Notification No. 1823, May 11, 1936] 
This enactment is for the purpose of controlling plant imports and by State 
enactments for the control of plant pests in each State. 
DEFINITION" OF PLANT 
"Plant" includes growing plants, roots, tubers, bulbs, stocks, cuttings, slips, 
suckers, and seeds, and any parts thereof from which further plants might 
be propagated. 
[Customs Enactment, 1936; Gazette Notification No. 1823, May 1, 1936] 
PLANT IMPORTATION BY AIR PROHIBITED 
Any plant: Importation by air prohibited, otherwise than from the Colony 
or from any Unfederatecl Malay State, provided that the adviser on agriculture 
may issue a permit, at his discretion, for the importation from the Netherlands 
Indies by air of cut flowers that are not portions of any plants specified in 
the following paragraph. 
IMPORTATION CONDITIONALLY PROHIBITED 
The importation is prohibited, otherwise than from the Colony or from any 
Unfederated Malay State, of the following plants, except in accordance with 
prescribed conditions: (1) Banana suckers for planting (from all subspecies" 
and varieties of Musa sapient um, M. cavendishii or chinensis, M. paradisiaca, 
M. textilis) ; (2) coffee (Coffea spp.), except dried beans for consumption or 
transshipment; (3) coconuts, the seed nuts (Cocos nucifera) ; (4) cotton 
{Gossypium spp.) ; (5) Oil palm seeds (Elaeis spp.) ; (6) palms of any species 
living and growing; (7) pineapple (all varieties of Ananas sativus) , including 
suckers, tops, or other living parts intended for propagation, but excluding 
pineapple fruits from the Netherlands Indies for consumption or canning ; 
(8) Rubber {Hevea spp.) ; (9) sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) ; (10) tea 
{Thea sinensis [Camellia thea]), living plants, including seeds. 
IMPORTATION UNRESTRICTED 
No plant-quarantine import restrictions are imposed on the importation of 
plants other than those above indicated. 
Conditions of Entry For the Listed Plants 
aul iiokized port of entry 
The above-named plants may be imported by sea alone, and only at Tort 
Swettenham, whether such plants have been transship] ted in the waters of the 
Colony or brought direct from a place outside the Colony, the Federated and 
the Unfederated Malay States, or by parcel post addressed to the consignee 
care of the adviser on agriculture, Federated Malay States, or the chief field 
officer, Department of Agriculture, Federated Malay States. 
WRITTEN IMPORT AUTHORITY REQUIRED IN ADVANCE OF SHIPMENT 
Importation shall ho allowed only under and in accordance with the written 
authority of the adviser on agriculture, Federated Malay States, or the chief 
field officer, Federated Malay States, which shall he obtained prior to the 
despatch of such plants from the country of origin. 
CERTIFICATE REQUIRED IX PKESCRir>! D FORM 
Every such plant or consignment of plants shall be accompanied by a cer- 
tificate in the form below, signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture 
