1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
117 
inent of plaiits or seeds may be treated if deemed necessary or, if actually 
found infected, may be treated or destroyed without compensation. 
Art. 6. Relates to place for inspection or treatment of imported plants or 
seeds. 
PHYTOSANITAEY CERTIFICATE REQUIRED 
Art. 7. All consignments of plants or seeds, from countries other than Gam- 
bia, Gold Coast, and Nigeria, except seeds of vegetables and ornamental 
plants and bulbs, corms and tubers from temperate countries, and bananas, 
cassava, coconuts, coffee, grapes, groundnuts (peanuts), kola, onions, plantains, 
potatoes, pulses (legumes), milled rice, sweetpotatoes, and yams for consump- 
tion shall be accompanied by a certificate from the recognized agricultural 
authority of the country in which the plants or seeds were grown, certifying 
freedom from any pest and giving details of place of origin, field inspection 
(if any), treatment (if any), examination, and descriptions, and consignments 
not accompanied by such a certificate may, at the discretion of the inspector, 
be destroyed without payment of compensation. 
The required certificate shall, so far as practicable, be in the form set forth 
below, or in a form accepted by the Director of Agriculture as being substan- 
tially to tlie like effect. 
Prescribed Certificate 
This is to certify that the plants 8 /a representative sample of the plants 8 
included in the consignment, of which particulars are given below, were/was 
thoroughly examined on . by 
(Date) (Name of inspector) 
a duly authorized official of the and found to 
(Name of official organization) 
be healthy, no evidence of the presence of any injurious insect, pest, or disease 
destructive to agricultural or horticultural crops having been found in/on 
them and that the consignment (including the packing) covered by this certi- 
ficate has/has not been treated in the following manner, e. g., fumigated with 
disinfected with prior '/immediately 
(Date) 
subsequent 8 to inspection, and that the plants were inspected "/not inspected 8 
in the field by a duly authorized inspector, on 
(Date) 
(Signature) 
(Official status) 
Date: 
Number and description of packages: 
Distinguishing marks : 
Description of plants : 
Stated to be grown at : 
Exported by : 
Name and address of consignee : 
Name of vessel or particulars of route : 
Date of shipment: 
Port or place of entry : 
Additional certificate (if any) attached. 
CONDITIONS OF IMPORTATION 
Art. 8. Subject to the provisions of this order, the importation of plants 
and seeds (except seeds from temperate countries, and bananas, cassava, coco- 
nuts (without husk), coffee, kola, plantains, pulses (legumes), milled rice, 
sweetpotatoes, and yams for consumption) shall further be subject to the fol- 
lowing conditions: 
From Gambia, Gold Coast, and Nigeria 
(a) Importations of plants and seeds of avocado, cotton (free from lint), 
sugarcane, all species of Musa, shall be permitted only under permit signed by tlie 
Director of Agriculture first obtained, and in accordance with any special con- 
ditions which may be stated in such permit. 
8 Strike out words not apnUonhip 
