The purpose of this Act is to control plant diseases and pests and prevent their spread. The Act consists of 28 Articles divided into 5 Chapters: General provisions; Plant protection; Plant quarantine; Penal Provisions; Supplementary Provisions. The central competent authority shall establish plant protection and quarantine authority, and establish plant protection research institution if necessary. The central competent authority may publish the types and scope of specific plant diseases and pests, establish a monitoring or surveying plan, and publish the control scheme for plant diseases and pests based on the monitoring or surveying results and the domestic ecological environment, agricultural production, and other public interests. The central competent authority may designate the plants, plant products, and any other articles which are likely to spread the pest, and promulgate that these articles are subject to import quarantine. Article 15 gives a list of articles of which importation shall not be permitted unless they are applied for experimental, research, educational or exhibitive use and approved by the central competent authority. The remaining articles of the Act make provision, inter alia, for procedures of reporting and handling plant diseases and pests, emergency control measures, compensation, quarantine certificates, offences and penalties.
Taiwan Province of China · 1996-01-10