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

Regulations

Control Measures

3. Prohibition relating to movement, keeping, planting or cultivation of certain plants

[Control measure 3 heading substituted by section 3(a) of Notice No. R442, GG 37702, dated 6 June 2014]

 

(1) No user of land shall keep, plant or cultivate any plant of a kind specified in column 1 of Table 3 on any land within the area specified in column 2 of the said Table opposite the name of the kind of plant concerned.

 

(2) No user of land shall keep, plant or cultivate any sugar-cane plant (Saccharum officinarum) in the Republic without the authorisation of the permit referred to in paragraph 6(3)(b) of the Act, excluding the varieties indicated in Table 4.

 

(3) No user of land shall keep, plant or cultivate any plant of a kind specified in column 1 of Table 5 originating from any land within an area specified in column 2 of the said Table opposite the name of the kind of plant concerned on any land within an area indicated in column 3 of the said table opposite the name of the kind of plant concerned.

 

(4) No user of land shall remove, keep, plant or cultivate any plant of a kind specified in column 1 of Table 12 originating from any land within an area specified in column 3 of the said Table opposite the name of the kind of plant concerned on any land within an area indicated in column 4 of the said Table opposite the name of the kind of plant concerned.

[Control measure 3(4) inserted by section 3(b) of Notice No. R. 442 dated 6 June 2014]