Chapter III Exit Quarantine
Article 20 The owner, or his or her agent, of exit animals and plants,
their products or other quarantine objects shall, before their exit, submit an
application for quarantine inspection to the port animal and plant quarantine
office.
The animals that need to be placed in isolation for quarantine inspection
before exit shall be quarantined in an isolation court designated by the port
animal and plant quarantine office.
Article 21 Export animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects shall be quarantined by the port animal and plant quarantine
office, and those that pass the quarantine inspection or conform to the
standards after a treatment of disinfection and disinfestation are allowed to
leave the country. The Customs shall, after verification, release the same on
the strength of the quarantine certificates issued, or the stamps on the customs
declaration forms affixed, by the port animal and plant quarantine office. Those
that fail in the quarantine inspection and are unable to be treated by
disinfection and disinfestation with effective methods shall not be allowed to
leave the country.
Article 22 Where the animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects that pass the quarantine inspection are involved in any of
the following circumstances, the owner or his or her agent shall re-apply for
quarantine inspection:
(1) Where the importing country or region is changed, and the changed
importing country or region has different requirements for quarantine
inspection;
(2) Where the packings are changed or the unpacked products or objects
are subsequently packed;
(3) Where the stipulated valid period of quarantine is exceeded.
Chapter IV Transit Quarantine
Article 23 Whoever requests a transit of animals through the Chinese
territory must obtain in advance and through consultation the consent of China's
State animal and plant quarantine department and the transit must be conducted
through the designated port and route.
The means of transport, containers, feeding stuffs and bedding materials for
the animals in transit must all conform to China's regulations on animal and
plant quarantine.
Article 24 The transit of animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects requires the consignor or the escort to submit at the port of
entry the bills of lading and the quarantine certificates issued by the animal
and plant quarantine department under the government of the exporting country or
region to the port animal and plant quarantine office for quarantine inspection.
No further quarantine inspection is needed at the port of exit.
Article 25 The transit animals that pass the quarantine inspection are
allowed to pass through the country; and in case any infectious or parasitic
disease of animals specified in the catalogues as stipulated in Article 18 of
this Law is discovered, the entire flock of the animals shall not be allowed to
transit.
The transit animals' feeding stuffs that are contaminated with diseases,
insect pests or harmful organisms shall be subjected to such treatments as
disinfection and disinfestation, denial of transit or destruction.
The carcasses, excrements, bedding materials and other wastes of the transit
animals must be disposed of in accordance with the regulations of the animal and
plant quarantine department, and may not be cast away without authorization.
Article 26 The port animal and plant quarantine office shall examine
the means of transport and the packings, in respect of the transit plants,
animal and plant products or other quarantine objects, which are allowed to
transit through the country if they pass the quarantine inspection; in case any
disease, insect pest or harmful organism specified in the catalogues as
stipulated in Article 18 of this Law is discovered, it shall be subjected to a
treatment of disinfection and disinfestation or denial of transit.
Article 27 Animals and plants, their products or other quarantine
objects, in the course of their transit, may not be unpacked or discharged from
the means of transport without the approval of the animal and plant quarantine
organ.
Chapter V Quarantine of Materials Carried by Passengers or by Post
Article 28 Whoever intends to carry or post plant seeds, seedlings or
other propagating materials into the country must submit an application in
advance and go through the formalities for examination and approval of
quarantine inspection.
Article 29 The catalogues of the animals and plants, their products and
other quarantine objects that are not allowed to be carried or posted into the
country shall be worked out and announced by the department of agriculture
administration under the State Council.
In case any animals or plants, animal or plant products or other quarantine
objects specified in the catalogues mentioned in the preceding paragraph are
carried or posted into the country, they shall either be returned or destroyed.
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