PLANT -QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 
OF INDIA 
BASIC LEGISLATION 
The Destructive Insects and Pests Act, approved February 3, 1914, as 
amended . 
The Act empowers the Governor-General-in-Council, by notification of 
the Gazette of India, to prohibit or regulate the importation into British 
India of any article or class of articles likely to cause infection of any 
crop. 
The Act also empowers the local government, subject to the control of 
the Governor -General -in -Council, to make rules for the detention, inspec- 
tion, disinfection, or destruction of such article or class of articles 
and to impose penalties for infractions of the said rules. 
ROLES FOR REGULATING THE IMPORT OF PLANTS, ETC,, 
INTO BRITISH INDIA 
Notification No. F. 320/35-A,, datod July 20, 1936 
(corrected up to June 27, 1951) 
DEFINITIONS 
1. In this order: 
(i) "Official certificate" means a certificate granted by the proper 
officer or authority in the country of origin (exports of plants and plant 
products from the United States to India must be certified by the U, S* 
Department of Agriculture); 
(ii) "Plant" means a living plant or part thereof, but does not in- 
clude seeds; 
(iii) "Prescribed port" means any of the following ports: Bombay, 
Calcutta, Cochin, Dhanushkodi, Madras, Negapatam, Port Blair, and Tuticorin; 
(iv) All provisions referring to plants or seeds shall apply also to all 
packing material used in packing or wrapping such plants or seeds. 
MAIL AND PARCEL POST 
2. No plant shall be imported into India by means of the letter or 
sample post; provided that sugarcane for planting intended to be grown 
under the personal supervision of the Government Sugarcane Expert, 
Coimbatore, may be imported by him by such post. 
