1996 ED]
PLAN[ PROTECTION ACT
[CAP l7lA
(6) An inspector may require a person who has been permitted
to import
a
plant material, heneficial organ ism soil or associated
.
rackaging, notwithstanding that there is a permit or phytosanitary
certificate in its respect, to make available for inspection at all
reas onable time$ within a reasonable period after allowing the entry of
the plant material, beneficial organism, soil or associated packaging.
(7) The Director may grant a permit subject to such reasonable
conditions which are consistent with the purpose of this Act.
6.(I) The Director may issue a phytosanitary certificate in respect Control of
expon
of a plant material or beneficial organism, soil or an associated
packaging for export.
(2) A phytosanitary certificate shall be in the form specified in
Schedule 2.
(3)
The Director lIIay establish the procedure for the purpose
of
subsection (1).
PART m. CONTAINMENT AND
ERADICATION OF PESTS
7.(1) The Minister may by notice in the Gazette declare any form
of plant or animal life or a pathogenic agent which is not otherwise
specified in Schctlule I to be 11 pest for the purposes of th i s Part.
(2) For the purposes of this Part·
"pest" means a pest specified in Schedule I or any other
form of plant or animal life or pathogenic agent which the
Minister has declared to be pest by a notice under
subsection (I);
"quarantine pest" means a pest declared as a quarantine
pest under subsection (3).
(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette,
declare a pest
whioh represents
a
threat to the agricultural
or
forestry
resources or the ecological enviroment of Seychelles to be a quarantine
pest.
(4)
The owner or occupier of any land who knows or suspects
the presence of a quarantine pest on the land shall as soon as
pra<::ticable after so knowing or suspecting adv;"" the Dir"c./or of the
presence or suspected presence of the quarantine pest on the land.
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Notification of
quanmtl ne pest