Plant Pests and Diseases (Pest Control) Regulations (Cap. 233)

SECTION 4-THE PLANT PESTS AND DISEASES (PEST CONTROL) REGULATIONS Regulations by the Minister Federal Government Notice 331 of 1958 Government Notice 90 of 1964 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Pests and Diseases (Pest Control) Regulations. Title 2. In these Regulations- Interpretation "scheduled pest" means a pest listed in the Schedule. 3. (1) An inspector may destroy or order by notice in writing the destruction of any plant, or such portion thereof as he considers necessary, which is infested or appears to be infested with a scheduled pest. Destruction of infested plants (2) In ordering the destruction of a plant or any portion thereof in terms of sub-regulation (1), the inspector may specify the manner in which the plant or portion thereof is to be destroyed. 4. (1) The Minister may, by order- Declaration by Minister of infested or quarantine areas (a) declare an area infested with a scheduled pest as an infested area and any area around such infested area as a quarantine area; (b) prohibit, restrict or regulate the removal of any compost, growing media, manure, plants and other things whatsoever to or from an infested or quarantine area. (2) The Minister may exempt, subject to such conditions as he may specify, any person from complying with any order made in terms of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1). 5. An inspector may, if he reasonably suspects the presence of a scheduled pest on land or in premises (a) declare the area in which the land or premises is situate an infested area; (b) by order, prohibit for a period not exceeding fourteen days, the removal from the land or premises of compost, growing media, manure, plants and other things whatsoever capable of spreading the pest. Declaration by inspector of infested areas 6. An inspector may by notice in writing order the owner of any land within an infested or quarantine area to destroy any plant on such land for the purpose of controlling attacks by or the spread of a scheduled pest. Destruction of plants in infested or quarantine areas 7. An owner of land who knows or has reason to believe that a scheduled pest is present on his land shall immediately report the occurrence in writing to an inspector. Duty to furnish information SCHEDULE (Regulation 2) SCHEDULED PESTS Bacterial blight of grapevine Xylophilus ampelinus (Baccarini) Du Plessis Bacterial canker of tomato Claribacter michinganensis supob michinganensis (E.F.S.) Jensen Bacterial ring-rot of potato Claribacter michinganensis ssp. sepedonicus (Spieck & Kotth.) Skaptason & Burkholder Bacterial streak of sugar cane Xanthomonas albilineans (Ashby) Dowson Blister blight of tea Exobasidium vexans Massee Blue mould of tobacco Peronospora hyoscyami Adam Chestnut canker Cryphonectria parasitica (Murr.) Anderson & Anderson Chlorotic streak virus of sugar cane Citrus black spot Guignardia citricarpa Kiely Citrus canker Xanthomonasi campestris pr citri (Hasse) Dowson Crown wart of lucerne Physoderma alfalfae (Lagerh.) Magnus Dutch elm disease Ceratocystis ulmi (Buism.) C. Moreau Fiji disease virus of sugar cane Sugar cane fiji disease-fiji virus 2. Smith Fireblight Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al. Internal cork virus disease of sweet potato Lucerne wilt Claribacter michinganensis sp. insidiosus (McCulloch) Jensen Onion smut Urocystis cepulae Frost Pierce's disease of the grape (lucerne Medicago virus 3. Smith dwarf virus) Stewart's disease of maize Erwinia stewartii var fragariae (E.F.S.) Dowson Strawberry red core Phytophthora fragariae Hickman Tomato spotted wilt virus (kromnek) Lycopersicum virus 3. Smith Wart disease of potato Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) Percival Potato root eelworm (golden nematode) Heterodera rostochiensis Wollenw. Stem and bulb eelworm Ditylenchus dipsaci (K�uhn) Cereal midges Contarinia spp. and Sitodiplosis spp. Cherry fruit-fly Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) Chrysanthemum midge Diarthronomyia chrysanthemi Ahlb. Coffee berry borer Hypothenemus hampei Ferr. Colorado beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) Japanese beetle Popillia japonica Newm. Oriental fruit-fly Bactrocera dorsalis Hend. Oriental fruit-moth Cydia molesta Busck. Pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Saund.) San José scale Quadraspidiotus perniciosus (Comst.)