1X6 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept 
such plant shall have been transshipped in the waters of the Colony or brought 
direct from a place outside the Malay Peninsula. 
Mail Shipments 
Any of the listed plants imported by parcel post from any country outside 
the Malay Peninsula shall be addressed to the consignee, care of the principal 
agricultural officer, Kota Bahru. One copy of the certificate from the country 
of origin shall be enclosed in the parcel. 
STATE OF TKENGGANU 
[Order of the State Secretary, January 5, 1937] 
STATE OF PERLIS 
Basic Legislation 
[The Customs Duties Enactment, 1336 ; March 21, 1932] 
B. E. P. Q. 479. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF 
KENYA 
August 18, 1938. 
This digest of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of the Colony and 
Protectorate of Kenya, which, is also applicable to Uganda, has been prepared 
for the information of nurserymen, plant-quarantine officials, and others in- 
terested in the exportation of plants and plant products to those colonies. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector in charge, 
foreign service information, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from Ordi- 
nance No. XXIV, August 28, 1937, and Government Notices 687 and 688 of 
September 2, 1937. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and 
complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used in- 
dependently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts, and it is not to be 
interpreted as legally authoritative. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BRITISH COLONY AND PROTECTORATE 
OF KENYA 
Basic Legislation 
[The Plant Protection Ordinance, No. XXIV, August 28, 1937] 
DEFINITIONS 
Section 2 of the ordinance makes the following definitions : 
"Animal organism" means any animal organism in any stage of its existence. 
"Disease" means any abnormal condition of plants communicable or believed 
to be communicable by the transfer of a causative agent or by the propagation 
of the affected plant which the Governor may, by order, declare to be a disease 
for the purposes of this ordinance. (See the order of September 2, 1937, p. 4.) 
"Pest" means any of the following, which the Governor, by order, may declare 
to be a pest for the purposes of this ordinance : 
(a) Any animal or vegetable organism inimical to the growth or existence 
of living plants or injurious to plant products. 
(b) Any other agent capable of producing a communicable disease of plants. 
"Plant" means any member of the vegetable kingdom and includes any part 
of a plant, whether severed therefrom or not. 
"Vegetable organism" means any vegetable organism at any stage of its 
existence. 
Section 8 of the ordinance empowers the Governor, by order, to prohibit, re- 
strict, or regulate the importation into and the exportation from the colony 
of any plants, and the soil, packages, coverings or wrappings thereof, and of 
any article or class of articles, whether of a nature similar to plants or not, 
and of any animals or insects likely to infest any plant with any pest or disease. 
