Agricultural Pests Act, 1983 (Act No. 36 of 1983)

Regulations

Importation of Controlled Goods without a Permit

1. Definitions

Purchase

1.	Any word or expression in this Schedule to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act shall have that meaning and, unless the context indicated otherwise—

"area of production"

means any plot or group of plots that are cultivated as a unit, and on or in which controlled goods are produced;

"certificate"

means—

(a)	the original specimen of a phytosanitary certificate or phytosanitary certificate of re-export, that—

(i)	is in the form of the FAO Model Certificate appended to the International Plant Protection Convention, Rome, 1951; and

(ii)	has been issued by a recognised empowered authority in the country of production or the country or re-export of the controlled goods to which such certificate relates;

(b)	the original specimen of a health certificate that has been issued by a recognised empowered authority in the country of production or the country of re-export of the controlled goods to which such certificate relates;

"country of production"

means the country in which controlled goods were produced or, in the case of Australia, the United States of America or any other country with autonomous phytosanitary services in the different states, thereof, the state in which controlled goods were produced;

"insects and pathogens"

means insects and pathogens of the kinds indicated in numerical sequence in Table 2; and

"the Act"

means the Agricultural Pests Act, 1983 (Act No. 36 of 1983).