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The officers in charge of Post Offices at the places of entry shall likewise, within 
twenty-four hours, notify the Minister or of the arrival from beyond the 
colony of any tree, plant, or portion thereof, or of parcels containing the same, and 
shall detain the same until otherwise authorised by him or : 
7, At the places of entry all trees, plants, or any portion thereof, and the packages 
that contain or have contained the same, shall on their arrival be detained at a plaze 
of quarantine for the purposes of inspection, disinfection, or being otherwise dealt 
with, as provided for in these Regulations. 
8. All trees, plants, or any part thereof, and the packages that contain or have 
contained the same, imported or introduced into the colony shall be subject to deten- 
tion and inspection by some person authorised by the Minister at any of the places 
of entry, and shall be subject to treatment by such person as follows, that is to say— 
(1) If such trees or plants be found on inspection to be subject to any disease 
not already known to exist in the colony, but liable if introduced and 
established to become prejudicial to its agricultural or horticultural 
interests, they shall be forthwith destroyed ; 
But in all other cases, and whether diseased or otherwise, they shall 
on inspection be detained and immediately afterwards disinfected in 
accordance with any one or more of the methods for disinfection prescribed 
in Schedule No. 1 hereto. 
(2) If such trees or plants be found on inspection to be subject to any disease 
they shall, notwithstanding they have been disinfected, be further detained 
for a period of not less than fourteen days. 
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 diated by the 
inspector or other officer authorised in that behalf, or may be held in bond at the 
cost of and on 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 
on such evidence being demanded from them. 
12. Culinary vegetables, cereals, and fruit are hereby excepted from the operation 
of the clauses 4: to 11, inclusive, of these Regulations. 
Agencies for plant distribution. 
13. Every nursery where plants are raised for sale, gift, or distribution shall be 
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 preseribed in Schedule 3 hereto shall be issued to the owner or occupier 
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