Plant Protection and Quarantine (Pink Mealy Bug/Hibiscus Mealy Bug Control)(Amendment) Order, 1997 (S.R.O. No. 51 of 1997)

1997 PLANT PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE (AMENDMENT) S.R.O.51 COMMONWEALTH OFDOMINICA STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS NO. 51 OF 1997 ORDER MADE bytheMinister under sections7 and8ofthePlantProtectionand QuarantineAct, Chapter58:40. (Gazetted 9th October, 1997.) 1. This Order may be cited as the PLANT PROTECTlON AND QUARANTlNE (PINK MEALY BUGIHIBISCUS MEALY BUG CONTROL) (AMENDMENT) ORDER 1997. Shorttitle. 2. In this Order the Plant Protection and Quarantine (Pink Interpretation. Mealy Bug/Hibiscus Mealy Bug Control) Order, 1997 is referred ~i~~6NO. 18 to as the "Principal Order". . 3. Section 2 of the Principal Orderis repealed and replaced as Repeal and follows' replacement . of section 2 of the Principal Order. "SpecifiedState" means any country infestedwith the PinkIHibiscus Mealy Bug; "Plant" means any plant which is attacked by thePinkIHibiscus Mealy Bug including those listed in the SChedule and any part, product, fruit and vegetable of any such plant; "Quarantine pest" means all pests of quarantine importance and includes the PinkJHibiscus Mealy Bug. 1997 PLANT PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE (AMENDMENT) S.R.O.51 Repeal of section 4 of thePrincipal Order. 4. Section 4 of the Principal Order is repealed and the follow ing substituted therefor 4. (I) Subjectto subsection (2) the importation into Dominica of and plant from a specified State is re stricted. (2) No plant shall be imported into Dominica from a specified State unless (a) the plant is imported from a definite area or district of the specifiedstate that is free from all Quarantine pest or from which all such Quarantine pest has been elimi nated provided that the Plant Protection Service ofthe exporting specified State (i) has established the absence of Quarantine pest in such defined area or district based on surveys carried out in accordance with the requirements of the international standards of phytosanitary meas ures; (ii) has adopted and is enforcing phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction ofQuarantine pest into the defined.area or district that are free from Quarantine pest or from which Quarantine pests has been eliminated; (iii) has submitted to Dominicadetailed written procedure of surveys which have been conducted in the pest free defined area or district; (iv) keep and make available to Domi nica detail records on its Quaran tine pest status; 1997 PLANT PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE (AMENDMENT) S.R.O.51 and provided that (v) the pest free defmed area or dis trict has been certified free of Quarantine pest by a technical team acceptable to the Chief Technical Officer or to the per son functioning as Chief Plant Protection Officer to which he delegates that function; (b) all containers containing plant being imported from the pest free defined areas ordistrictof a specified Stale must be clearly labelled as to (i) the name of the exporting speci fied State; (ii) the name ofthe pest free defined area or district; and (iii) the type and amount of plant in the container; (c) all plant being transhipped through Dominica from a specified country must be in sealed containers; (d) all persons entering into Dominica whether or not from a specified country must declare all plant in their posses sion; and (e) all plants being imported into Dominica whether or not from a specified country must be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate outlining any phytosanitary measurres that have been taken on the produce and no such plant shall be al lowed entry if the apppropriate phytosanitary measures required to be taken on it have not been taken. 1997 PLANT PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE (AMENDMENT) S.R.O.51 SCHEDULE FOREST ORNAMENTALS TREE VEGETA- WEEDS TREES CROPS BLES Blue Mahoe Angelica Avocado Beans White tops Gliricidia Allamanda Breadfruit Beetroot Pursley Leucaena Anthurium Breadnut Cabbage Stringing Samaan Bouganvillea Carambola Dasheen nettle Teak Croton Citrus Lettuce Vervine Ginger lily Cocoa Ochro Sensitive Heliconia Damson Plant Pepper Broom Hibiscus Golden- Pumpkin Ixora Apple Tannia Mussaenda Guava Tomato Oleander Passion- Cucumber Fruit Plum Sorrel Soursop Sugar Apple West Indian Cherry Mango Made this 19th day of August, 1997. PETER CARBON Minister for Agriculture and the Environment. DOMINICA Printed by the Government Printer at the Government Printery, Roseau (Price 80 cents)