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Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Plants) Regulation 1911

UNITED KINGDOM

GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS (PLANTS) REGULATION, 1911.
No. V. of 1911.

L.S.

F.H.MAY.

KING'S REGULATION

TO GOVERN THE IMPORTATION OF PLANTS AND FRUIT
INTO THE GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS PROTECTORATE
AND THE EXAMINATION OF THE SAME

Made by His Britannic Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific under the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893.
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In the name of His Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

Short title.
1. This Regulation may be cited as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Plants) Regulation, 1911.

Interpretation.
2. In this Regulation -

"plant;"
"plant" means any tree, flower, shrub, vegetable or other vegetable growth;

"part of plant;"
"part of plant" means any root, bulb, cutting, bud, graft, seed or fruit;

"fruit;"
"fruit" means any edible product of any plant and includes the peel, skin, or shell of fruit;

"plant or part of plant affected with insect pest or disease;"
"plant or part thereof affected with insect pest or disease" means any plant or part thereof, or the packages or wrappings that may contain or have contained the same, in or on which any insect pest or disease is or has been present in any form or stage of development, or with which any plant or part thereof, or package or wrapping, has come in contact;

"Protectorate;"
“Protectorate” means the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands Protectorate;

"Resident Commissioner."
“Resident Commissioner” means the Resident Commissioner of the Protectorate and includes any officer deputed by him to act for him under the provisions of this Regulation.

Importation of Plants, &c.
3. No person, after the commencement of this Regulation, in any way shall introduce, or attempt, or be concerned in attempting, to introduce into the Protectorate, any plant or part of a plant, or any fruit, except with the written permission of the Resident Commissioner and upon such conditions (if any) as he shall think fit to prescribe.

Penalty.
4. Any person, contravening the provisions of the last preceding section shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months, and the plant or part thereof so introduced into the Protectorate shall be liable to detention and, if the Resident Commissioner so directs, to destruction forthwith.

Examination of suspected plants, &c.
5. It shall be lawful for the Resident Commissioner, if he shall know or suspect any plant or part of a plant, whether introduced into the Protectorate before or after the commencement of this Regulation, to be affected with insect pest or disease, to cause the same to be examined and, if necessary, rendered innocuous or destroyed.

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Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific this seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

By Command,

C.H. HART-DAVIS,
Secretary to His Britannic Majesty’s High Commissioner
for the Western Pacific.