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i908.J 
Consolidated Statutes 
Third Schedule 
may be suspended 
in any county. 
1003, No. 67, sec. 3 
Powers of Governor 
for preventing 
introduction of 
diseased plants, &c. 
Ibid, sec. 4 
“ Fruit ” means the edible product of any plant; and includes 
the peel, skin, or shell of such product, and also the seeds 
of such plant, whether such fruit is or is not attached to 
the plant: 
“ Infected ” means infected with disease : 
“ Infected package ” includes every case or other package in 
which any diseased plant of fruit is or has been contained 
or with which any such plant or fruit has come in contact: 
“ Minister ” means the Minister of Agriculture : 
“ Occupier,” in the case of any orchard or land which is unoccupied 
or whose actual occupier is unknown or cannot be found, 
includes the owner: 
“ Orchard ” means any land used for the purpose of orchard, 
garden, nursery, vinery, or vineyard : 
“ Plant ” means any tree, flower, shrub, vegetable, or other, 
vegetation, 
3. (1.) The Council of any county may from time to time, by 
special order gazetted, declare that the Third Schedule hereto shall 
(in respect of all or any one or more of the diseases mentioned therein) 
be suspended within its jurisdiction. 
(2.) In a county wherein “ The Counties Act, 1908,” is suspended, 
or has never been in operation, a like declaration shall be made by the 
Minister, by notice in the Gazette, on the petition of a majority of the 
local authorities within the limits of the county. 
(3.) Any such declaration may in like manner be rescinded, and 
thereupon the said Third Schedule shall again have operation within 
the limits of the county. 
(4.) For aU the purposes of this section a borough shall be deemed 
to be within the limits of the county within whose boundaries the borough 
is situate, and similarly in the case of a town district which is not part 
of the county. 
4. The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council 
gazetted,— 
(a.) Prohibit, absolutely or except in accordance with regulations 
under this Act,— 
(i.) The introduction into New Zealand, either gene¬ 
rally or from any specified colony, country, port, or place, 
of any plant, fruit, fungus, parasite, insect, or any other 
thing which in his opinion is likely to introduce any disease 
into New Zealand ; or 
(ii.) The bringing into any specified portion of New 
Zealand from any other portion or specified portion of New 
Zealand of any specified plant, fruit, fungus, parasite, insect, 
or other thing which in his opinion is diseased or is likely to 
spread disease : 
(6.) Appoint any specified ports to be ’the only ports of entry for 
plants or fruit, or for any specified plant or fruit: 
(c.) Appoint quarantine grounds where plants or fruit, and the 
packages containing the same or with which the same may 
have come in contact, may be detained for the purpose of 
being inspected, disinfected, destroyed, or otherwise disposed 
