Plants and Plant Products (Importation) Order, 1976 (G.S.I. No. 44 of 1976)

GUERNSEY STATUTORV INSTRU~£NT '-;'. -- . .. 'TtlIIt"" -"" -"'-0.......;..-. . w-~ . --"-..:..-.-. .....-.-. -..-..., '*eto •• --.....-.. 1976 - No. If-v. . Made • G .. "". ..,. .0 G 10th June, 1976 Laiq b~forrn the States Coming 'into Operation "" " " "" a 0 0., 1st Jul\;, 1976 THE 3TATE~ COMMITTEE FOR HORTICULTURE, in pursuance of the powers conferfed upnnit by section eight of the Importation of .Plants and Fllant Prpduc'e (Health) Ordi:nance, 1972- (a), hereby orders: Restrictions on ).andi!,S ot Ulinu~ ~elkovq 'p}~nt13. 1" Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) of section two (whi,:::h relate to exception of certain produce) and section three (Which relate to ·restrictions on landing of certain produce) of. the OrdinanceJ '6f ' 1972, the landing in this Island of any pl8nt~of the genus Ulmus'or the genus Zelkova is hereby prohibited unless the landing is under the authority of ~ iicence granted by the' Committee and is in accordance with the terms and conditions SUOJBct to which the licence was granted.. " R~strictions 0n-1and!Dg of Ulmus wood 20 The landing in this Island of any wood obtained from any plants of the genus Ulmus is hereby prohibited unless .(a) : before despatch to thip Island the bark of, all the wood in~e8~h co~signment shall have been removed and the °Waod shall have been disinfected. against vectors of Dutch Elm Disease (Ceratocvstisulmi) and Elm Phloem necrosis by spraying witFi a 00.1% emulsion of ffiEllathion in water Bpplied in such a waV as to cause thorough wetting of the rounded surface of the wood after the removal of the 'bark; and (b) eElch consignment is accompanied by an official certificate duly signed bV or on behalf of an authorised officer of the Plant Protectiqn' service of the country from which the consignment was despatched not more than fourteen days prior to the date of the despatch of the consignment· certifying that the bark has been removed, and that the wood has been d~einfected in accordance with ',the requirements of the last preceding paragraph; and \{~) Recuei! d10rdonnances Tome XVIII, p.. 147Q {c) the requirements imposed by section seven of the OTdimmce of "1972 on phyt06anitar\} and supplemental certificates are comrlied with in respect of the aforesaid official certificate 8S they are required to be complied with in respect of phytosanitRry and supplemental certificateso Pro~ib}tion on landing of »lmu~ bark ! 3a The landing in this Island of any bark obtained from an\} plants of the genus Ulmus is hereby prohibitedo Int.~rE!'etation 4a (1) In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby ~eBpectively' assigned to them, that is to say:~. "the Ordif)snceof 1972.11" means the Importation of Plants and Plant Produce (Health) Ordinance, 1972; "umod" means an\j"lqg or part of slog which retains some Dr all of .its bark. 9ra~YPE\rt."of 11he rounded'surface cif'the'tiss'ues 'immediately below the bark, but does not includechips~ and IIlog11 means the trunk of any felled or fallen tree wh~ch has been trimmed or any length of each trunk which has been trimmed', or ,any branch or any length of such branch which has been trimmed, severed from a living "or felled or fallen tree; , ' anQ;sny·.other expressions have the same meanings as ~.n·the Ordinance (j{ ;49720 .(2) . Any reference in this Order "to any other enactment shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed'Bs including B reference to that enactment as emended, repealed or replaced, extended or 6pplieq bV or under anv other enactment including this Ordera' Exception of certain produce 5. Nothing in this Order shall apply to any produce grown in any of the other Islands of the Bailiwicka Citatioh 6a This Order may be cited 8S the Plants and Plant Produce (Importation) Order. 1976a Commencement 7. This Order shall come into force on the first dav of Julv. nineteen hundred and aeventv-afx.. Dated this'tenth day' of ';;June" nineteen hundred and seventy-six ... ,j ,. , ~ i <o~ CA,P-'. ~ . B·~) President of the Jtates Committee for Horticulture, for and on q?hal,f.Qf t~e Committeea 3 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This Note is not part of the Order but is intended to indicate its general purport). This Order controls the importation into the Islands of Guernsey, Herm and Jethou of trees or parts of trees, particularly thE' bark of such trees, which could present a risk of introducing the aggressive strain of Dutch Elm Disease. The Order prohibits the import~tion of susceptible varieties of trees except under licence issued by the Committee for Horticulture; it also prohibits the importation of elm wood unless the bark has been removed and the timber disinfected; and prohibits completely the importation of bark obtained from elm trees.