PLANT HEALTH (PHYTOSANITARY) ACT: DRAFT REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

PLANT HEALTH (PHYTOSANITARY) ACT: DRAFT REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 26 September 2025
• Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development has gazetted three sets of draft regulations under the yet-to-be-commenced 2024 Plant Health (Phytosanitary) Act, calling for comments by 26 October 2025.

Among other things, the draft control regulations seek to:

• prohibit:
  • the possession of regulated pests
  • the movement of infested plants, plant products and other articles
  • keeping, planting or cultivating regulated plants, plant products and other articles (including for research purposes)
• provide for:
  • the destruction of any such plants and plant-related material
  • notification obligations in the context of regulated pest occurrences on land in pest-free areas
  • serving orders requiring the introduction of appropriate control measures, and
  • procedures to be followed when demarcating quarantine areas.

The draft import regulations cover, among other things:

• permit application and processing procedures
• consignment inspection
• consignment detention, quarantine and post-quarantine measures
• biological control agent import permit requirements, and
• research-related plant import permit requirements.

The draft export regulations focus on:

• permit application and processing procedures
• phytosanitary certification requirements, and
• in-transit permit application and processing procedures.

Please click the links below for more details:

• draft control regulations
• draft import regulations
• draft export regulations
• Act

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