54 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
inspector, with treatment according to the findings. However, inspection may 
be waived if the plants are accompanied by a certificate issued by a State 
authority at the place from which the plants were exported, affirming that the 
place from which the plants have come is free from any harmful or dangerous 
disease. 
Basic Legislation 
Plants Protection Act, 1916. (Aug. 1, 1916) 
Section 1. This act may be cited as the Plants Protection Act. 
DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 2. The following definitions are included in this section: 
(a) "Plant" includes tree, shrub, herb, or vegetable; cuttings, bulbs, seeds,, 
berries, buds, and grafts ; the fruit or product of any plant ; the root, trunk, 
stem, branch, or leaf of any plant; and the whole or any part of any growing, 
dying, or dead plant, including emptied pods, husks, or skins ; but it shall not 
be deemed to include imported vegetables or fruit intended for consumption as 
food and not for propagation. 
(b) "Plant disease" means any deterioration or destruction of plants or 
parts of plants capable of being communicated to other plants or parts of 
plants, whether such deterioration or destruction be due to disease, insects, 
blight, fungus, or any other cause. 
(c) "Packages" includes boxes, coverings, wrappers, earth, soil, or anything 
whatsoever in which plants are imported. 
(d) "Board" means the board established under the Agricultural and 
Marine Products Board Act, or any act constituting such a board. 
Sec. 3. Empowers the Governor to appoint inspectors. 
PLANTS MAY BE IMPORTED ONLY SUBJECT TO THE RULES 
Sec. 4. No plants whatsoever, nor the packages thereof, shall be imported into 
the Colony except under and subject to the rules. 
GOVERNOR EMPOWERED TO RESTRICT OR PROHIBIT ENTRY OF PLANTS 
Sec 5. The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the board estab- 
lished under the Agricultural and Marine Products Board Act may by procla- 
mation absolutely or conditionally prohibit the importation, directly or 
indirectly, from any country or place, of any plants or any article packed 
therewith, or any package which in the opinion of the Governor in Council are, 
or are likely to be, means of introducing any plant disease into the Colony ; or 
prohibit for such time as may be named in the proclamation the importation of 
any plants or the packages thereof at any ports of the Colony therein named. 
BOARD AUTHORIZED TO MAKE RULES 
Sec. 6. The board, with the approval of the Governor in Council, may make 
rules in respect of the importation, detention, examination, removal, and treat- 
ment before, at. or after importation or landing of any plants or articles 
packed therewith, or any packages to which this act applies; the cleansing, 
disinfection, purification, and treatment of the same; the destruction of the 
same before, at, or after the landing of the same, if such destruction be 
necessary in the opinion of the board. 
Rules Promulgated Under the Authority of the Plants Protection Act 
(Approved by the Governor in Council Oct. 2, 1916) 
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY 
Article 1. No plants whatsoever, as defined by the act, nor the packages 
that contain the same, shall be imported into the Colony except under the 
following conditions: 
