WART DISEASE OF POTATOES ORDER OF 1941. Dated September 12, 1941.
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1941/1439 |
| Year | 1941 |
1941 No. 1439
DESTRUCTIVE INSECT AND PEST
Wart Disease
THE WART DISEASE OF POTATOES ORDER OF 1941. DATED SEPTEMBER 12, 1941.The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in him under the Destructive Insects and Pests Acts, 1877 to 1927, and of every other power enabling him in this behalf, orders as follows:—
Short Title
1. This Order may be cited as the Wart Disease of Potatoes Order of 1941.
Application and Commencement
2. This Order shall apply to England and Wales only and shall come into operation on the fifteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-one.
Definitions
3. In this Order:—
"Minister" means the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries;
"Ministry" means the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries;
"Inspector" means an Inspector or other authorised officer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries;
The expression "Local Authority" means as regards any district the local authority for the district under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1937;
"Wart Disease" means the disease affecting potatoes which is caused by Synchytrium endobioticum and known as Wart Disease of Potatoes or Black Scab or Cauliflower disease;
"An approved immune variety" is a variety approved for the time being by the Minister as being immune from Wart Disease;
"Protected Area" means the area described in the First Schedule hereto or any other area in England or Wales which is for the time being certified by the Minister to be a Protected Area for the purposes of this Order.
Notification of Disease
4.—(1) The occupier or other person in charge of any land on which Wart Disease exists or appears to exist, and any person having in his possession or under his charge potatoes which are affected with Wart Disease, shall forthwith notify the fact by post or otherwise to the Ministry or to an Inspector.
(2) If on land in respect of which notification of disease has been given in any year Wart Disease exists or appears to exist in any subsequent year, a further notification of disease shall be so given.
Prohibition of Sale of Diseased Potatoes
5. Potatoes visibly affected with Wart Disease shall not be sold or offered for sale for any purpose.
Precautions to be adopted in case of an Outbreak of Disease
6.—(1) For the prevention of the spread of Wart Disease the occupier or other person in charge of land on which the disease exists, and any other person having in his possession or under his charge (whether or not in a pit, bag, or other receptacle) potatoes which are affected with the disease, shall forthwith adopt the following measures, that is to say:—
(a) boil thoroughly or destroy by fire all diseased tubers; and
(b) in the case of the occupier or other person in charge of land on which the disease exists, destroy by fire any other part of the crop of potatoes on which there are visible signs of the disease.
(2) No person shall sell or offer for sale for planting any potatoes from a crop in which Wart Disease has been found to exist.
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