AN ACT TO AMEND “THE CODLIN MOTH ACT, 1884.”

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2391, 5 November 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ACT TO AMEND “THE CODLIN MOTH ACT, 1884.”

Date, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows 1. The short title of this Act is “ The Codlin Moth Act, 188-1, Amendment Act, 1887. 3. This Act shall be read with and shall be considered as forming part of “ The Codim Moth Act, 1881,” hereinafter called the said Act, and shall come into operation on the day of 8. In the said Act, and in this Act if not inconsistent with the context, inspector includes general inspector ; tree means any apple and pear trees three years old and upwards. 4. It shall bo lawful for the Governor-in-Coanoil from time to time to appoint a general inspector for the colony, and from time to lime to remove or dismiss such general inspector, and to define the duties and to fix the salary of such general inspector. 5. It shall be lawful for the general inspector to appoint fit and experienced persons to be inspectors, and to fix their remuneration, and from time to time to dismiss or remove any person so appointed. Any inspector may be appointed to mure districts than one.

(!. The several counties and boroughs in the colony shall be districts for the purposes of this Act, and shall be known by their respective names as the (county or borough) Codlin Moth District. 7. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time declare any district or any portion of a district a clean or an unclean district.

S. Any person selling or offering or exposing for sale any infected fruit shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. Tins section shall not come into operation until April Ist, 181)0. 0. Any occupier in a clean or unclean district whose orchard is mfected in any degree with Cudlin Afoth and shall not within 21 hours after becoming aware of such infection give notice thereof to the inspector of such district shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each offence.

10. Mo person shall send or convey into any clean district any fruit infected with tlie moth, or any case, box, barrel, or other receptacle so infected; and any person offending against this provision shall be liable to a penalty nut exceeding five pounds, and the person sending as well as the person receiving any such fruit, case, box, barrel, or other receptacle shall be liable to the penalty herein prescribed.

11. Tlie general inspector and every inspector shall exercise and discharge tlie several powers, authorities, and duties prescribed by tlie said Act and this Act, and may at any reasonable time enter upon any orchard in any district for the purpose of inspecting tlie trees in such orchard, and the fruit thereon and all other fruit, and may at any reasonable time also enter any ship, boat, shop, store, or other building or place in any district in which lie may have reason to believe trees, fruit, cases, boxes, barrels, or other receptacles are deposited for the purpuso of inspecting the state and condition thereof. If any person refuses to allow any inspector to enter at any reasonable time on his orchard, ship, boat, shop, store, or other building or place, or to examine any trees, fruit, cases, boxes, barrels,

or other receptacles being therein or thereon, or impedes or hinders, or attempts to impede or hinder any inspector from examining any such trees, fruit, cases, boxes, barrels, or other receptacles, such person shall forfeit and pay a penalty not less than £2 nor exceeding £lO. 12. Section 12 of the said Act shall bo amended by the excision of the words “ borough or county council may with the approval of the ” in the first and second lines, the addition of the word "may” after the word “council” in the second line, and the addition of the clause after the word “purpose” in the fifteenth line. For prescribing the manner in which infected fruit houses, rooms, cases, boxes, barrels and other receptacles shall be destroyed or cleansed or otherwise fit to be again used for such purpose. 13. Sections -I, 10, 11, 11 and 15, and the definition of the word “ tree ”in the interpretation clause of the said Act are hereby repealed.