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 UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE 
 Agricultural  Research  Administration 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 Washington  25,  D.  C, 
 
 August  7,  19U5 
 
 B.E.P.Q. — kl6.   Revised,  Supplement  No.  1 
 
 PLANT-QUARANTINE  IMPORT  RESTRICTIONS 
 OF  THE 
 UNITED  KINGDOM  OF  GREAT  BRITAIN 
 
 NORTHERN  IRELAND 
 
 (Statutory  Rules  and  Orders,  19X2,  No.  1720,  November  28,  1912) l/ 
 
 Importation  Prohibited  of  Gooseberry  and  Currant  Plants, 
 Except  Under  License 
 
 Art,  6.   It  shall  not  be  lawful  to  land  in  Northern  Ireland  any 
 gooseberry  or  currant  bush  (includes  a  cutting,  stock,  seedling, 
 or  any  part  of  a  bush  except  the  fruit)  brought  from  any  place 
 out  of  Ireland  without  a  license  from  the  Ministry  of  Agriculture, 
 and  no  such  license  shall  be  given  except  for  the  importation  of 
 bushes  to  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  experiment  or  propagating  new 
 varieties;  provided  that  in  the  case  of  a  person  or  firm  having  a 
 nursery  in  Ireland  the  Ministry  at  its  discretion  may  grant  to  such 
 person  or  firm  a  license  for  the  importation  of  a  limited  number  of 
 bushes  solely  for  the  purpose  of  propagating  new  stocks  in  such 
 nursery,  but  not  for  resale.   The  license  must  be  produced  if  re- 
 quired by  any  officer  of  Customs,  or  other  authorized  person,  when 
 the  bush  is  landed,   (This  Order  promulgated  on  account  of  the 
 currant  bud  mite  (Eriophyes  ribis  Nal.)  and  American  powdery  mildew 
 (Sphaerotheca  mors-uvae  (Schw.)  Berk.  &  Curt.) 
 
 P.  N.  ANNAND 
 Chief,  Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 
 l/  The  existence  of  this  Order  was  not  previously  made  known  to  the 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine. 
 
UNIVERSITY  OF  FLORIDA 
 
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