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Tf at the expiration of the said period of fourteen days, and notwith- 
standing they have been subjected to process or processes of disinfection, 
they still harbour or are infested by insect or fungus pest or disease they 
shall be forthwith destroyed. 
When such trees or plants have been treated as hereinbefore prescribed, a 
certificate in one of the forms contained in Schedule 2 hereto shall forthwith be issued 
to the consignees, agents, or other person or persons interested. 
9. Consignees or their agents shall give a delivery order to the inspector or other 
person authorised in that behalf for all such trees, plants, or parts thereof, 
as well as packages that may contain or have contained the same, in order 
that they may be conveyed to a place of quarantine. Consignees or their 
agents must pay the expense of such removal, and unpack and prepare such 
trees, plants, and packages for inspection, disinfection, or other treatment, as 
provided for in Regulation No. 8. They shall also pay all costs, charges, and 
expenses payable in respect of the same. If the destruction of such trees, plants, 
packages, or portions thereof has not been ordered, on obtaining the certificate of 
inspection and disinfection provided for in Regulation 8 such consignees or agents 
shall repack and remove the same within twenty-four hours after the receipt of such 
certificate. 
10. All trees, plants, or parts thereof, and packages that contain or have contained 
the same, conveyed to any place of quarantine for the purposes of inspection, 
disinfection, or other treatment provided for in Regulation 8, and not so dealt with by 
reason of the default of the consignee or his agent to provide the necessary payment 
for conveyance and labour for unpacking and repacking may be deeieoredt by the 
inspector or other officer authorised in that behalf, or may be held in bond at the 
cost of andon behalf of the consignee or his agent. 
11. All imported trees, plants, or portions thereof may be seized and destroyed 
by or under the authority of the Minister, should no sufficient evidence of their being 
included in any certificate of disinfection be tendered by their lawful owner or owners ., 
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12. Culinary vegetables, cereals, and fruit are hereby excepted from the operation ,. , oe 
of the clauses 4 to 11, inclusive, of these Regulations. (ao" Bi * = OENE 
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13. Every nursery where plants are raised for sale, gift, or distribution shal bal 
registered by the owners or occupiers thereof, at the Office of the Department of 
Agriculture, on or before the First of January in each year. 
14. Every such registered nursery shall be inspected by an officer duly authorised 
by the Minister, at least twice a year, at an interval of not less than one month, and 
in the event of the officer reporting that such nursery is free from disease, a certificate 
in the form prescribed in Schedule 3 hereto shall be issued to the owner or occupier 
thereof. In the event of such nursery being subject to disease, the officer shall forth- 
with give to the owner or occupier thereof written notice in the form contained in 
Schedule 4 hereto, to take the necessary measures for the eradication of such disease. 
15. The owner or occupier of every such registered nursery who raises for sale 
or distribution trees, plants, or vegetables, or portions thereof, not suitable for 
immediate culinary purposes, shall give to the party immediately concerned in an 
transaction, whether of gift, sale, or exchange for valuable consideration of any bak 
trees, plants, or vegetables, a written guarantee in the form contained in Schedule 5 
hereto, certifying his nursery is duly registered, and that the trees, plants, or 
vegctables have been disinfected by him, or his agents, by any one or more of the 
methods prescribed by Schedule 1 hereto, and that ihey are free from disease, and are 
in a vigorous and healthy condition. 
16. All market gardens devoted exclusively to the cultivation of culinary vege- 
tables, and all other gardens so farasrelate to these kinds of plants, shall be excepted 
from the operation of the next preceding three clauses of these Regulations. 
17. No person shall sell or dispose of, or offer for sale, any tree, plant, or 
vegetable, or portion thereof, infested with or infected by any disease. 
Fruit fly. 
18. All fallen fruit, of whatever kind (and whether harbouring insects or not), 
shall be gathered before noon of each day by the occupier or owner, or his or her 
agent, of any place where fruit trees are being grown, and all pest-infected fruit shall 
be submitted to the process of boiling, or be buried beneath not less than one foot six 
inches of solid earth. 
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