Nov. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3049

Commonwealth of Australia.
Form 2. Quarantine Act, 1908.
(Plants.)
IMPORTER’S NOTICE.
To the Quarantine Officer for Plants,
Port of , 19 .

I hereby give you notice that I desire to remove from the vessel [Give name] the following plants, as per schedule below.
These plants have been grown at [Name of country and place], and shipped at [Name of port].

Signature:
(Importer).

Inspection Fees—Section 64.

105. The following fees shall be charged under the Quarantine Act for the inspection of imported plants, and such fees shall be payable before the delivery of such plants:—

Fruit—
Bananas .. .. .. ½d. per bunch.
Pineapples and bananas, in cases or packages .. .. ½d. per Imperial bushel, or part thereof.

Fruit other than pineapples and bananas .. .. .. 1d. per Imperial bushel, or part thereof.

Plants other than specified—
For each package 1 cwt. and under .. .. .. 1s. 6d.
For each package over 1 cwt. .. 1s. for each additional hundredweight, or part thereof.

In estimating the amount to be charged, allowance shall be made for the weight of packing or of earth.

Cereals, pulse, and other seeds—
For every hundredweight, or part thereof, up to 5 tons .. .. .. .. 1d.
For every ton, or part thereof, exceeding 5 tons 2d.

Vegetables, including onions, potatoes, corms, rhizomes, bulbs, tubers—
For every hundredweight, or part thereof, up to 5 tons .. .. .. .. 1d.
For every ton, or part thereof, exceeding 5 tons 2d.

Nuts and nutmegs—
For every ½ cwt., or portion thereof .. .. 1d.

106. A Quarantine Officer, in respect of any imported plant found after careful inspection to be free from disease and certified accordingly, may upon receipt of inspection fees issue a permit authorising delivery of the plant in accordance with the following form, which shall be printed on white paper:—

Commonwealth of Australia.
Form 3. Quarantine Act, 1908.
(Plants.)
PERMIT TO DELIVER PLANTS.
To the Officer at , 19 .

Please deliver upon production of the receipt for payment of inspection fees, the following plants (as per schedule below) ex s. , from to .

Signature:
(Quarantine Officer).
Station.

107. Any imported plant subject to quarantine shall, unless after careful inspection by a Quarantine Officer it is found to be free from disease and is certified accordingly, be ordered into quarantine, and shall there be dealt with and treated as prescribed.

108. When any plant has been ordered into quarantine, it shall be immediately removed to a quarantine station in such manner and by such means as the Quarantine Officer directs.

109. When a Quarantine Officer has ordered any plant into quarantine, he shall issue an order to be served on the importer of the plant, and shall forward to the Customs or other officer in charge a permit authorising delivery of the said plant in accordance with the following form, which shall, with the order, be printed on yellow paper.

Commonwealth of Australia.
Form 4. Quarantine Act, 1908.
(Plants.)
PERMIT TO DELIVER PLANTS INTO A QUARANTINE STATION.
To the Officer at , 19 .

Please allow the following plants (as per schedule below), which arrived ex s. from , to be removed in quarantine from the vessel, to be delivered to the quarantine station at .

Signature:
(Quarantine Officer).
Station.

110. The Quarantine Officer may, so far as quarantine is concerned, permit the delivery of any plant lawfully imported, after such plant has been examined and sorted or treated as prescribed or as deemed necessary by the Chief Quarantine Officer, at a quarantine station or other approved place.

Packages and Packing.

111. Any package which has contained any diseased plant may, if so directed by the Chief Quarantine Officer, be disinfected as prescribed.

112. Any package or packing-material connected with any imported plant, and consisting of hay, straw, grass, moss, fibre, charcoal, bark, or other material considered by the Quarantine Officer likely to introduce disease, shall be forthwith destroyed at the quarantine station or at any place that may be approved of by the Chief Quarantine Officer in the State concerned.

Quarantine Stations for Plants, Regulation of.

113. The treatment of any plant in quarantine shall be as prescribed.

114. Any plant which has undergone quarantine and treatment, and which, after examination by the Quarantine Officer, is certified by him to be free from disease, may, when all contingent expenses have been duly paid, be removed from the quarantine station on the issue by the Quarantine Officer to the importer of a certificate of release from quarantine and a permit to remove, which shall be printed on green paper, in accordance with the following form:—

Commonwealth of Australia.
Form 5. Quarantine Act, 1908.
(Plants.)
RELEASE FROM QUARANTINE AND PERMIT TO REMOVE PLANTS.
, 19 .

To M
The plants imported by , which arrived ex s. from , and particularised in the schedule below, and which have been treated in quarantine and subsequently found free from disease, are hereby released from quarantine, and may be removed from the quarantine station on production to of receipts of payment of inspection, fumigation, and other quarantine charges.

Signature:
(Quarantine Officer).
Station.