Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Importing and Exporting Animals and Plants
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Importing and Exporting Animals and Plants
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Importing and Exporting Animals and Plants
Order of the President [1991] No. 53
October 30, 1991
Adopted at the 22nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress and promulgated by Order of the President No. 53
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is formulated for the purpose of preventing infectious or parasitic diseases of animals, diseases, insect pests and weeds dangerous to plants, and other harmful organisms (hereinafter referred to, for short, as diseases, insect pests and harmful organisms) from spreading into or out of the country, protecting the production of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery as well as human health, and promoting the development of foreign economic relations and trade.
Article 2 Animals and plants, their products and other quarantine objects, containers and packaging materials used for carrying animals and plants, their products or other quarantine objects, as well as means of transport from animal or plant epidemic areas shall, on importing or exporting, be subject to quarantine inspection in accordance with this Law.
Article 3 An animal and plant quarantine department shall be instituted under the State Council (hereinafter referred to, for short, as the State animal and plant quarantine department), which shall conduct a unified administration of the importing and exporting animal and plant quarantine in the whole country. Port animal and plant quarantine offices set up by the State animal and plant quarantine department at ports open to the outside world and at places busy with importing and exporting animal and plant quarantine shall, in accordance with this Law, carry out importing and exporting animal and plant quarantine. The department in charge of the quarantine of animal products leaving the country for trade purposes shall be designated by the State Council as it deems appropriate. The department of agriculture administration under the State Council shall be in charge of the importing and exporting animal and plant quarantine in the whole country.
Article 4 A port animal and plant quarantine office may exercise the following functions and powers when performing quarantine inspection:
1. embarking on a ship, a vehicle or an airplane to perform quarantine under this Law;
2. entering a seaport, an airport, a railway or coach station, a post office or a site where quarantine objects are stored, processed, bred or cultivated, to perform quarantine inspection and collect samples according to relevant regulations;
3. entering a site relating to production or storage according to the needs of quarantine, to carry out epidemic monitoring and investigations or quarantine supervision and control;
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