Plant-quarantine import restrictions of the Tanganyika Territory

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTU"A
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine
Washington, D. C. L1IR LRY

STATE P1A. N BOAXRI

B. E. P. Q.-.-452, Supplement No. 1. August 19, 1937.


PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS

OF THE

TANGANYIKA TERRITORY

This supplement is rendered necessary by the receipt of a
copy of the Tanganyika Plant Protection Ordinance No. 9 of April
23, 1937, which repeals and supersedes the Plant Pest and Disease
Ordinance of November 9, 1921.

Definitions

The following definitions are included in Section 2 of Or-
dinance No. 9 of 1937:

"Animal organism" means any animal organism in any stage
of existence.

"Disease" means any abnormal condition of plants communicable
or believed to be communicable by the transfer of a causative agent
or by the propagation of the affected plant which the Governor may,
by order, declare to be a disease for the purposes of the Ordinance;
also any unhealthy condition of any plant.

"Pesat" means any of the following which the Governor, by
order, may declare to be a pest for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(a) Any animal or vegetable organism inimical to the growth
or existence of living plants or injurious to plant
products.

(b) Any other agent capable of producing a communicable dis-
ease of plants.

"Plant" means any member of the vegetable kingdom and includes
any part of a plant, whether severed therefrom or not.

"Vegetable organism" means any vegetable organism at any stage
of existence.




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Section 8 empowers the Governor, by order, to prohibit, re-
strict, or regulate the importation into and the exportation from
the Territory of any plants, and the soil, packages, coverings or
wrappings thereof, and of any article or class of articles, whether
of nature similar 'to plants or not, and. of any animals or insects
likely to infect any plant with any pest or disease.


LEE
Chief, Bureau. of


A. STRONG,
Entomology and Plant Quarantine.


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