order made in accordance with the provision of this Act.
(3) The confiscation or destruction of a growing medium, plant or
other thing in accordance with subsection (2) shall not free the
person responsible for its illegal removal from liability to
prosecution.
Regulations
12. (1) The Minister may make regulations for the better carrying
out of the purposes and provisions of this Act, and without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing such regulations may
provide for –
(a) the form of and the fees payable in respect of any permits or
certificates or other documents required under this Act, and the
manner of applications to be made in respect thereof;
(b) the issue of, the duration of, the cancellation, surrender or
amendment of, and the conditions which may be attached to,
any permit, certificate or other document required under this
Act;
(c) the regulation, prohibition, restriction or control of the import
or export of any plant, or class of plant or any growing
medium, invertebrate, pest or other injurious organism;
(d) the disinfection, treatment, destruction or disposal of pests, or
plants infested or appearing to be infested with a pest, or
anything whatever, whether similar in nature to a plant or not,
which is liable to infest a plant with a pest;
(e) the prohibition, restriction and regulation of the removal,
transport or export of pests, growing media or plants;
(f) the control and destruction of any plant infested with a pest;
(g) the prohibition, restriction and regulation of the cultivation and
harvesting of plants if a pest cannot otherwise be readily or
adequately controlled or eradicated;
(h) the control and destruction of host plants not under cultivation
for the current season’s crop;
(i) the reporting of the occurrence of a pest and the collection and
transmission of specimens of a pest;
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