1939] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 
Art. 2. No person shall import or land: (a) Any seed or plant of any 
species of Hevea grown in the Western Hemisphere; (&) any seed or plant of 
any species of Hevea grown in the Eastern Hemisphere except under a permit 
in writing, from the director of agriculture; (c) any tea seed, directly or in- 
directly, from any place in India, except in such quantities as may be neces- 
sary for experimental purposes and except under and in accordance with the 
terms and conditions of a permit in writing from the director of agriculture ; 
(d) any coconut plant; (e) any coconut in husk through any port other than 
the port of Colombo; (f) the seed of cotton of any species of Gossypium through 
any port other than the port of Colombo; (g) any seed, or unginned cotton, or 
raw ginned cotton of any species of Gossypium grown in the Western Hemi- 
sphere, through any port other than Colombo, or from any port other than 
Bombay, or except with a certificate of fumigation or disinfection or both 
fumigation and disinfection from the collector of customs at Bombay; (h) any 
living plant of the cassava plant, Manihot utilissima, except under a permit 
in writing from the director of agriculture. 
IMPORT LICENSE REQUIRED FOR FRESH FRUIT 
Art. 3. (1) No person shall import any fresh fruit into Ceylon without a 
license issued by the director of agriculture, or by an officer of the Department 
of Agriculture authorized in that behalf by the director, or otherwise than in 
accordance with the terms and conditions of such license. 
(2) No license shall be issued for the import of fresh fruit from any country 
in which the Mediterranean fruitfly (Ceratitis capitata Wied.), or any other 
pest of fruits which has not become established in Ceylon, is known or suspected 
to exist unless the director of agriculture is satisfied that either before export 
from such country or during transit to Ceylon the fruit is so treated as to in- 
sure that such pest, in all its stages, is effectively destroyed. 
(3) Every license issued under this regulation shall: (a) Specify the country 
from which the fresh fruit may be imported; (&) be valid for the period speci- 
fied in the license; (c) be subject to the condition that it may be withdrawn 
by the director of agriculture at any time prior to the expiry of that period by 
written notice addressed to the holder of the license; (d) be subject to such 
other special conditions as may be set out in such license by, or by the authority 
of, the director of agriculture ; (e) be in the form prescribed. 
(4) No person shall land any fresh fruit at any port other than the port of 
Colombo, and no person shall land such fruit at Colombo unless he has satisfied 
the principal collector of customs that such fruit was grown in and consigned 
from the country specified in the license issued to that person. 
INSPECTION, FUMIGATION, AND DISINFECTION 
Art. 4. (1) All living imported plants, coconuts in husk, and the seed of all 
species of Gossypium shall, before passing out of the customs, be examined by 
the inspector in charge of the Colombo fumigatorium, together with the pack- 
ings, cases, pots, or coverings in which they may be packed : Provided that this 
paragraph shall not apply to potatoes, onions, turmeric, culinary seed, edible 
vegetables and the seed of such vegetables, and the seed of any ornamental 
plant. 
(2) Every imported plant, which on inspection is found or suspected of being 
infected with any pest or disease, shall be subjected to fumigation or disinfec- 
tion, or both, as may be deemed necessary by the inspector: Provided that the 
director of agriculture, by notification published in the Gazette, may direct from 
time to time, that all imported plants of any species or genus, or all plants of 
any specified species or genus imported from any specified part of the world, 
shall be subjected to fumigation or disinfection or both ; and after the publica- 
tion of any such notification all consignments of the plants referred to therein 
shall be subjected to fumigation or disinfection or both fumigation and disinfec- 
tion, as the case may be. 
IMPORTED PLANTS MAY BE QUARANTINED 
(4) The director of agriculture may order that any plant which has been 
fumigated or disinfected shall be grown for a period of quarantine in special 
nurseries provided or approved by him for that purpose. 
