S.L. 433.4 Art. 4Contaminated plot.

(1) When an occurrence of Synchytrium endobioticum

(Schilb.) Perse., the pathogenic agent of Potato Wart Disease, is recorded, the Department shall demarcate the contaminated plot and a safety zone large enough to ensure the plot and a safety zone large enough to ensure the protection of surrounding areas.

(2) A plot shall be regarded as being contaminated when symptoms of Potato Wart Disease have been found on at least one plant from that plot.

(3) Potato tubers and haulms which came from contaminated plots shall be treated in such manner, to the satisfaction of the Director, that the harmful organism is destroyed. If it is no longer possible to determine the place from which contaminated tubers and haulms came, the whole of the batch in which the contaminated tubers or haulms have been found must be treated.

(4) On contaminated plots:

(a) no potatoes may be grown;

(b) no plant intended for transplanting may be grown, stored in the ground or otherwise.