Regulations

(1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Board, make regulations generally for the control of the planting, growing, cultivation, harvesting, preventing and curing of infestation and disease, transportation, handling, packing, and marketing of bananas and, without prejudice to the generality of this provision, for– (a) prescribing the form of any licence, notice or any document required to be prescribed; (b) regulation of areas of planting within a designated area and the acreage to be planted by the licensees; (c) disinfection, treatment of diseased banana plants; (d) destruction and disposal of banana plants not suitable for planting or likely to infect or adversely affect other banana plants because of infestation or disease; (e) destruction, disposal of diseased or infested bananas or articles of any description whatever likely to infect or adversely affect other bananas; (f) of cultivation, harvesting, transportation of diseased or infested bananas; (g) disinfection, fumigation, treatment of buildings, vehicles, articles of any description suspected of harbouring disease or pests likely to affect plants or bananas; 16 (h) provision of packing houses, their inspection and licensing, method of packing, issuance of certificates of competency to packers; (i) measures to be taken to prevent the spread of plant diseases or pests, including the quarantine of infected or infested plant area; (j) disinfection and treatment services and payment of fees, if any, therefore; (k) prohibition or restriction of transportation of (l) grading of bananas during packing, their inspection and certification by grading (m) inspection of plantations, packing houses, vehicles used for transportation of bananas and any other thing whatsoever by inspectors to ensure compliance with this Act and the regulations made there under; (n) generally carrying into effect any of the provisions of this Act. (2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation made under the provisions of this section shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding six months, or to any lesser penalty that may be annexed to the breach of any regulation and, in addition, there may be annexed to any such breach a provision for forfeiture to the State of any bananas. (3) All regulations made pursuant to this section shall be laid before the National Assembly as soon as may be after making thereof and if the Assembly by resolution request that such regulations or any of them be rescinded, the same shall be 17 rescinded by the Minister but without prejudice to the validity of anything done there under.