PLANT PROTECTION ACT
1996 EO]
PART I
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PRELIMINARY
1. This Act may be cited as the Plant Protection Act.
2. In
this Ac.t "authorised officer" means an authorised officer appointed
under section 12(c). a p olice officer, a trade tax officer. an
immigration officer, a public health inspector and a postal
officer;
"beneficial organism" means orgarusm, mcluding fungi,
bacteria,
viruses, virus-like organisms or
invertebrate
anirnals, used specifically for the control of pest, for
pollination, for the production of commercially valuable
agricultural products or for other purposes beneficial to
agricultural production;
"conveyance" mean a vessel, vehicle, cargo container,
animal or other device used for moving goods, soil on other
things from one place to another;
"Director" means the person referred t o under section
12(2);
"designated point of entry" means a port, airport, post
office or other such place designated under section 16;
"infested" means harbouring or contaminated by pest;
"in pector means a per on appointed under section 12( I);
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"permit" means a permit issued under section 5;
llpF;'(tll
mean
itny form of plant
or
animal life or a
pathogenic agent specified in Schedule I;
"plant mcterial" meanS a plant, plant part, including seeds,
corm, bud or rhizome or a plant product;
"plant product" means unmanufactured material of plant
origin and those manufactured products which, by their
nature or that of their processing may create a risk for the
spread of pests;
"plant protecting authority", in respect of a foreign country,
means the authority in that country responsible for issuing
nny
certificates or other authorisations for the export of
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