S.L. 433.7 Art. 4Methods to carry out surveys.

The official surveys provided for in regulation 3 shall be carried out:

(a) for the listed plant material, according to the details set down in point 1 of Section II, Schedule I; and,

(b) for host plants other than the listed plant material, and

*These regulations were repealed by Legal Notice 84 of 2023. for water including liquid waste, in accordance with appropriate methods and, where appropriate, samples shall be taken and subjected to official or officially supervised laboratory testing;

(c) where appropriate for other material, in accordance with appropriate methods. For these surveys, further details of the inspection procedures and the number, origin, stratification and timing of collection of samples shall be decided by the Plant Health Department based on sound scientific and statistical principles and the biology of the organism and taking into account the particular production systems of the listed plant material and, as appropriate, of other host plants of the organism.