Regulations

(1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Authority, make Regulations generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and objects of this Act, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may make Regulations to– (a) provide for the administration of plant and animal protection and quarantine service; (b) provide for measures to be taken to prevent the introduction or the spread of plant pests, and such Regulations may apply to the whole of Belize or to any part thereof; (c) provide for the isolation by any means of any distinct area or parcel of land or any portion of such distinct area or parcel of land declared by Order to be infected or suspected of having been infected by plant pests or disease, animal disease, bee disease, or fish disease; (d) provide for the destruction, removal, uprooting, disposal or quarantine or treatment of plants and plant products within such distinct area or parcel of land; (e) provide for the cleansing and disinfecting of any distinct area or parcel of land and any plants therein; (f) prescribe the period within which it shall not be lawful to plant or replant in any such distinct area or parcel of land, any plant whatsoever or any particular named plant; (g) prescribe the measures to be taken for the treatment of any notifiable plant pest or quarantine pest, by the owner, occupier or person having the charge or management of any land; (h) provide for the establishment of temporary quarantine premises, post-entry quarantine stations and their necessary facilities or (i) prescribe fees for inspections, services and treatment and any other services; (j) prescribe the conditions under which the importation of any plant, article or thing may be permitted; (k) prescribe forms and documents appropriate for the effective administration of the Act; Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP. 211 57 (l) prescribe the measures to be taken for the treatment of any notifiable plant pest, by the owner, occupier or person having control or management of any land; (m) prescribe measures to be taken for the identification, detection, diagnosis and prevention of plant pests, for the purposes of or incidental to quarantine; (n) provide for the examination by designated officers of plants, animals, animal products, biologicals, feed, and plant products for (o) govern the procedure relating to the issue of (p) provide for the revocation of permits; (q) provide for the establishment, inspection, regulation and control of nurseries or any other places where plants are grown for the purposes of sale or distribution; (r) provide for the disinfection, fumigation and treatment of buildings, or carriers in which plants or plant products are imported or which are suspected of harbouring any plant pest; (s) prescribe the level of fees to be paid where treatment quarantine action or measures are given or taken; (t) prohibit the importation of any plant or plant products except at specified ports or points of 58 (u) regulate or prohibit the removal from any land or building, or the transfer or conveyance from any part of Belize to any other part thereof, of any plant, plant product, soil, manure, straw, package, plant pest or live beneficial organism; (v) regulate or prohibit the entry of plants and plant products into Belize; (w) regulate the disposal of waste and other material from carriers temporarily in Belize; (x) specify the notices to be given by persons in possession or in charge of diseased animals in the case of any particular disease, or in the case of illness of any such animal, and the persons to whom such notices are to be given; (y) notify the public of infected places or infected areas and the removal of anything into, within or out of such places or areas, and the cleansing or disinfecting of such places or areas; (z) regulate the movement of persons into, within or out of infected places or infected areas, and the prevention of the spread of disease by persons in contact with diseased or suspected (aa) regulate the treatment, disinfection, destruction, burial, disposal and digging up, of anything in or removed from an infected place or infected area; (bb) regulate the movement, isolation, segregation, treatment, slaughter, destruction, disposal, Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP. 211 59 burial, seizure, detention, and exposure for sale, of diseased or suspected animals; (cc) regulate the removal, transport, treatment, isolation, examination, testing, cleansing, disinfecting, from suffering, exposure for sale, exhibition or marking, of (dd) require such persons as may be prescribed to keep and produce such records in relation to the import or export of plants or animals as the Authority may consider necessary for the purposes of this Act; (ee) regulate and control the use of biologicals; (ff) regulate and control the use of animals; (gg) regulate the export of animals including issuance of certificates required for export; (hh) regulate the importation of animal products; (ii) regulate the removal, transport, treatment, examination, cleansing, and disinfection of carcasses, fodder, litter, dung and other things; (jj) control the cleansing, disinfecting, and examination, of places used by, and vehicles used for, the transport of, animals; (kk) prescribe the fees and expenses which may be incurred for any purpose for which Regulations may be made under this section, and the person by whom they are to be paid, and the manner in which they may be recovered; 60 (ll) control the movement of animals within any area although not designated as infected; (mm) prescribe the period within which it shall not be lawful to rear any animal in an area previously declared to be an infected area; (nn) prescribe measures regarding the issue of sanitary and phytosanitary certificates and any other related measures in accordance with the requirements of the World Trade Organization Agreement or other relevant international conventions; (oo) prescribe the procedures for carrying out risk analysis for plants and animals (including the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System) and specifying the persons or organisation authorized to conduct such (pp) prescribe standards regarding the destruction of animals or plants being imported into Belize; (qq) prescribe the level of fees or charges for the destruction of plants and animals being imported into Belize; (rr) regulate the use and importation into Belize, and exportation from Belize, of bio- engineered plants and animals; (ss) regulate the certification of organic farms; (tt) declare areas as pest free areas and regulate the operation and maintenance of such areas as pest free areas; Belize Agricultural Health Authority [CAP. 211 61 (uu) regulate the approval and certification for all food processing plants, without prejudice to the provisions of the Public Health Act; (vv) provide for the immunization or treatment by vaccination or otherwise of any or all animals within an infected area or infected place at the expense or risk of the owner; (ww) designate the as the sole organisation responsible for inspecting food and plant processing industries for compliance with the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System; (xx) define the powers of designated officers in respect of entry to and inspection of premises and land, and the collection of any samples therefrom, as well as enforcement measures such officers may lawfully enforce, including the closing down of premises or factories; (yy) prescribe penalties for the breach of any Regulations not exceeding five thousand dollars or three years imprisonment; (zz) provide for any other matter required by this Act to be prescribed; and (aaa) register and control the use of veterinary drugs, biologicals and medicated food for (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Interpretation Act, Cap. 1, Regulations made under this Act may provide in respect of a breach of any of the provisions thereof that the offender shall be liable to such fine not exceeding five thousand dollars 62 or to such period of imprisonment not exceeding two years, or to both such fine and period of imprisonment.