SEPT. 23. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3317

These plants were grown at [Name of country and place]
and shipped at [Name of port].

I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
the above particulars are true and correct, and that no other
plant subject to quarantine of which I am the consignee or
importer or agent has arrived by the said vessel. [Signature.]

[Witness to signature.]
Receipt No. .

Provided that the charges for any separate inspection under
this regulation shall not be less than 6d., the fees for inspec-
tion of imported plants shall be as hereunder set out. The
said fees shall be charged according to net weight where
fixed by weight, and shall be paid before delivery of the
plants :—

(a.) Growing plants: 1d. per plant for each consignment
of not more than 10 plants in pots or similar pack-
ages; 1s. for each consignment containing more
than 10 plants but not more than 50; 2s. for each
consignment containing more than 50 plants but
not more than 100; 1s. for each additional 100 plants
up to 500 in each consignment; 1s. for each addi-
tional 500 plants up to 20,000 in each consignment;
1s. for each 1,000 plants above 20,000 in each con-
signment.

(b.) Cuttings, stocks, and scions: 1s. per 1,000 or part
thereof up to 5,000, and 6d. per 1,000 or part thereof
for any additional quantity.

(c.) Fresh fruit.: Bananas, in bunches, ½d. per bunch;
fruit, in cases or other packages, 1d. per package
weighing half a cental or less; 2d. per package
weighing more than half a cental.

(d.) Dried fruit: Dried fruit, such as raisins, currants,
prunes, figs, dates, and apples (other than in airtight
bottles, tins, or similar retail packages), 1d. per
cental up to 40 centals; 6d. per 20 centals, or part
thereof, above 40 centals.

(e.) Cereals, pulse, and other seeds: Cereals, pulse, vege-
table, and similar seeds, in bulk or in wholesale
packages, ½d. per cental up to 100 centals; 3d. per
20 centals, or part thereof, from 100 to 400 centals
in each consignment; 1d. per 20 centals, or part
thereof, above 400 centals in each consignment.

(f.) Nuts: Coconuts, 1d. per cental, or part thereof, up
to 20 centals; 3d. per 20 centals, or part thereof,
above 20 centals in each consignment. Nuts, such
as walnuts, filberts, peanuts, and Brazil nuts, 1d.
per cental up to 20 centals; 6d. per 20 centals, or
part thereof, above 20 centals in each consignment.

(g.) Vegetables, bulbs, &c.: Vegetables, including onions,
potatoes, corms, rhizomes, bulbs, and tubers gene-
rally, 1d. per cental up to 100 centals; 2d. per
20 centals, or part thereof, above 100 centals in each
consignment.

(h.) Parts of plants partially treated in preparation for
foodstuffs, such as nutmegs, hulled coffee-beans,
cocoa-beans, pepper, pimento, hops, imported for
manufacture into foodstuffs or similar purpose,
free, unless found affected with disease, when the
charge shall be 2d. per cental.

(i.) Plants arriving by parcel-post or in passengers’ luggage,
free.

(j.) Plants from Norfolk Island, free.

A quarantine officer shall, in respect of any imported
plant not otherwise provided for under these regulations,
and found after careful inspection to be free from disease
and certified accordingly, issue a permit authorizing delivery
of the plant.

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.

When any plant has been ordered into quarantine it shall
be immediately removed to a quarantine-station or other
place approved by the Chief Quarantine Officer in such manner
and by such means as the quarantine officer directs.

When a quarantine officer has ordered any plant into qua-
rantine he shall issue an order to be served on the importer
of the plants, and shall forward to the Customs or other officer
in charge a permit authorizing delivery of the said plant either
to a quarantine-station or for inter-State transfer.

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

Any package or packing-material connected with any im-
ported 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.

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 con-
tingent 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.

Any imported plant which has been treated at a quarantine-
station or other place approved by the Chief Quarantine
Officer in accordance with these regulations, and released
from quarantine, and in respect of which a permit to remove
has been issued, shall be removed forthwith by the importer.

If any plant in quarantine in respect of which a permit to
remove has been issued is not removed and remains unclaimed
after a period of seven days it may be sold or destroyed, as
directed by the Chief Quarantine Officer.

Any imported fruit, vegetables (including tubers, bulbs,
corms, and rhizomes), nuts, cereals, pulse, or other seed,
of which any proportion is on inspection by a quarantine
officer found to be or suspected of being affected with a disease,
or any cereals, pulse, or other seed found on inspection to be
mixed with the seed of a proclaimed weed pest, shall be
ordered into quarantine, and may, under the supervision of
a quarantine officer, be treated as prescribed (or as the Chief
Quarantine Officer may direct), or sorted at a quarantine-
station or other approved place, subject to the following
conditions, viz.,—

(a.) The fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals, pulse, or other
seed shall, as directed by a quarantine officer, be
removed to a quarantine-station or other approved
place.

(b.) Any such fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals, pulse, or other
seed treated, sorted, or cleaned to the satisfaction
of the quarantine officer shall, with the exception of
bananas, which may be delivered unpacked, be re-
packed in clean cases, bags, or other packages,
which shall be supplied by the importer, who may
then be permitted to take delivery under an order
issued by the quarantine officer.

(c.) Any case, bag, or other package which has contained
any diseased fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals, pulse,
or other seed shall be disinfected as prescribed or
to the satisfaction of the Chief Quarantine Officer
before delivery, or shall be destroyed.

(d.) Any fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals, pulse, or other
seed which have been sorted and are deemed by the
quarantine officer to be diseased may, at the expense
of the importer, and if approved by the Minister,
be reshipped and exported, or may be destroyed
or denatured as prescribed.

Any seed of a proclaimed or prohibited weed pest
shall, at the importer’s expense, be destroyed or
denatured as prescribed, at such place as the Chief
Quarantine Officer may direct.

(e.) The importer shall, unless the quarantine officer decides
that the work shall be performed by the official
staff at the cost of the importer, provide all cartage
and labour in connection with the treatment, sorting,
picking-over, cleaning, or repacking of any imported
fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals, pulse, or other seed.
A sum not exceeding 2s. per hour or portion thereof
shall be made for the supervision of sorting, cleaning,
repacking, or treatment if the work is carried out by
the importer under the supervision of a quarantine
officer.

Any plant not otherwise provided for in these regulations
shall be retained in quarantine for such period as the Chief
Quarantine Officer deems necessary, having regard to the
nature and condition of the plant and the place from which
it comes.

Any imported goods found to be infested with a noxious
insect or pest or fungus may, if in the opinion of the Chief
Quarantine Officer such goods can be treated so as to destroy
such insect pest or fungus without destruction or denatura-
tion of the goods, be landed in quarantine and treated under
the supervision of a quarantine officer, at a quarantine-station
or depot, or other place approved by the Chief Quarantine
Officer.

Unless the Chief Quarantine Officer decides that the work
shall be performed by the official staff at the cost of the
importer, all cartage and labour in connection with the treat-
ment of such goods shall be provided by the importer. In