Plant Protection (Pests Declaration) Instrument (S.I. 31-1)
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- Language
- English
- Kind
- Regulation
- Organisation
- African Union (AU)
- Country
- Uganda
- Subjects
- Cultivated plants
- Keywords
- plant protection, pests/diseases
- Categories
- agriculture
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THE PLANT PROTECTION ACT. Statutory Instrument 31—1. The Plant Protection (Pests Declaration) Instrument. (Under section 1 of the Act.) 1. Citation. This Instrument may be cited as the Plant Protection (Pests Declaration) Instrument. 2. Interpretation. For the purposes of this Instrument— (a) the plant Eichhornia crassipes means the plant commonly known as the water hyacinth; and (b) the plant Datura stramonium means the plant commonly known in Luganda as “madudu”, in Acholi as “yatokal”, in Lusoga as “entulatula”, in Kinyarwanda as “bungangabukale”, in Rutoro as “omutaibwa” and in Kiswahili as “mnanaha”, “mranaa”, “mranaha” and “mrenaha”. 3. Declaration of pests. The plants— (a) Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms; and (b) Datura stramonium, are declared to be pests for the purposes of the Act. History: S.I. 244-1.