PLANT PROTECTION ACT 1996 EO] PART I Short title - [CAP 17I A PRELIMINARY 1. This Act may be cited as the Plant Protection Act. 2. In this Ac.t "authorised officer" means an authorised officer appointed under section 12(c). a p olice officer, a trade tax officer. an immigration officer, a public health inspector and a postal officer; "beneficial organism" means orgarusm, mcluding fungi, bacteria, viruses, virus-like organisms or invertebrate anirnals, used specifically for the control of pest, for pollination, for the production of commercially valuable agricultural products or for other purposes beneficial to agricultural production; "conveyance" mean a vessel, vehicle, cargo container, animal or other device used for moving goods, soil on other things from one place to another; "Director" means the person referred t o under section 12(2); "designated point of entry" means a port, airport, post office or other such place designated under section 16; "infested" means harbouring or contaminated by pest; "in pector means a per on appointed under section 12( I); " "permit" means a permit issued under section 5; llpF;'(tll mean itny form of plant or animal life or a pathogenic agent specified in Schedule I; "plant mcterial" meanS a plant, plant part, including seeds, corm, bud or rhizome or a plant product; "plant product" means unmanufactured material of plant origin and those manufactured products which, by their nature or that of their processing may create a risk for the spread of pests; "plant protecting authority", in respect of a foreign country, means the authority in that country responsible for issuing nny certificates or other authorisations for the export of 2 a