Plants Diseases Act of 1913.

This Act consisting of 19 articles aims at providing to protect plants from any insect, fungus, parasite or bacterial or other disease which may be injurious to them. The competent body may (i) prohibit both the introduction - either generally or from any specified places - and the circulation within the country of any plant, fungus, parasite, insect or any other thing which in its opinion is likely to produce any disease; (ii) appoint any specified places to be the only places of entry for plants or for any specified plant; (iii) appoint quarantine grounds where plants and packages containing the same or with which the same may have come into contact may be detained for the purpose of being inspected, disinfected, destroyed or otherwise disposed of; and (iv) remove any disease from the category of proclaimed diseases.
The Act establishes also (i) the responsibility of occupiers of plantation to eradicate proclaimed diseases; (ii) the power of a plant quarantine officer to enter into any means of conveyance or upon any plantation, land or building or on board any vessel for the purpose of inspecting any plants or the packages containing the same; (iii) the power of any inspector or plant quarantine officer may remove, treat, disinfect, destroy or otherwise dispose of any plants or packages; and (iv) costs due for disinfection or destruction of any plantation, plants or packages shall be paid by the plantation owner, occupier, consignee or addressee.
It is consequently prohibited (i) selling, offering or exposing for sale or distributing in any manner any plant or package infected with any proclaimed disease; and (ii) selling, offering or exposing for sale or distributing in any manner any plant or package introduced into the Sudan contrary to any order or regulation made under the provisions of this Act.
At the end of the Act are listed the proclaimed diseases.