LIBRARY 
 STATE PLANT BOARD 
 
 E2/Australig 
 
 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 March 16, 1939. 
 
 B. E. P. Q. 476, Supplement No. 2. 
 
 PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 
 OP THE 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 
 
 Importation of Potatoes for Consumption Prohibited 
 
 By an amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 
 — Statutory Rules 1938, No. 85, under the Customs Act 1901-1936— 
 published in the Commonwealth Gazette, August 25, 1938, the importa- 
 tion of potatoes for food purposes is now prohibited, except as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 (a.) Intended for: 
 
 1. Use as ships' stores on overseas vessels, or 
 
 2. Shipment to an island in the Pacific Ocean; 
 
 (b) Entered for transshipment. 
 
 Consequently, the following item should be added to the summary 
 under the caption "IMPORTATION INTO THE COMMONWEALTH PROHIBITED" 
 
 "POTATOES FOR CONSUMPTION: Importation prohibited except 
 when intended for use as ships' stores on overseas 
 vessels, or for shipment to an island in the Pacific 
 Ocean, or when entered for transshipment (Amendment to 
 Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations — Statutory 
 Rules 1938, No. 85) . " 
 
 AMENDMENT 
 
 Regulation 27 on page 8 of B. E. P. Q,. 476 is amended to read 
 as follows: 
 
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 Reg. 27. Shipments of fodder, hay, or chaff may be landed 
 only in compliance with Regulation 67 of Quarantine 
 (Animal) Regulations and shall be reported to the Chief 
 Quarantine Officer (Plants) for any additional treatment 
 that he deems necessary to prevent the introduction of 
 plant diseases and pests." 
 
 Corrections in the text of B. E. P. Q. '476: 
 
 Page 1, item Cactaceae : " Nopalia " should be " Nopalea . " 
 Page 4, under definitions in regulation 3: "Diseases" should 
 be "Diseased." 
 
 Page 4, in regulation 4: "(Form Q P 1 Importers' Notice)" 
 
 should read "(Form Q P 1 Importer's Notice)." 
 Page 5, in regulation 5 "(Form Q P 2 Timber Importers* Notice)" 
 
 should read "(Form Q P 2 Timber - Importer's Notice)." 
 Page 5, in regulation 17 "Chief quarantine inspector" should 
 
 be "chief quarantine officer." 
 Page 8, under "Declared Diseases" "Armillaria A. me lea (Vahl) 
 
 Zuel." should be "Armillaria A. mellea (Vahl) Quel." 
 Page 9, on last line "A. f ructigena " should be "A. f ructigenum . " 
 Page 17, in list of declared weed pests " Foeniculum vulgare Hill." 
 
 should read " Foeniculum vulgare Mill.," and " Hypochoeris " 
 
 should be " Hypochae ri s . " 
 
 Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine .