【正文】 cle 8, paragraph 1.(PLANT QUARANTINE OFFICIAL AND INSPECTOR)Article 3. Plant Quarantine Official shall be established in the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries to carry out the quarantine or the control stipulated in this Law.2. Temporary plant quarantine inspector may be established in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to assist the business of quarantine control to be carried out by the Plant Quarantine Official.3. Temporary plant quarantine inspector shall be a part time employee.(AUTHORITY OF PLANT QUARANTINE OFFTCIAL)Article 4. Plant Quarantine Official may, if he deems that there exist plants, packing materials or containers thereof which may be infested with injurious animals and plants, enter land, premises, warehouse, business office, ship, train or airplane and inspect the plants concerned, packing materials or containers thereof, or ask question of the person concerned, or collect, without pensation a necessary minimum of sample of plants concerned, packing materials or containers thereof, etc. for inspection.2. Plant Quarantine Official may, in case he deems that there is an infestation of injurious animals or plants as s result of inspection under the provision of the preceding paragraph, and when it is necessary to control the same or prevent the spread thereof, order any person in possession of, or managing the plants concerned, packing materials or containers thereof, land, premises, warehouse, business office, ship, train or airplane concerned to disinfect the same.3. In the case of the preceding paragraph, the provision of Article 20, paragraph 1 (Compensation Against Loss) shall apply with necessary modifications.4. The authority of inspection upon entering the premises, questioning and collection of sample under the provision of paragraph 1 shall not be construed as being approved for a criminal investigation.(CARRYING OF IDENTIFICATION CARD AND UNIFORM)Article 5. Plant Quarantine Official and Plant Quarantine Inspector shall carry in person their identification cards indicating their official status in carrying out their duties in accordance with this Law. The identification card shall be shown to the persons concerned when Plant Quarantine Official or Inspector exercises his authority under the provision of paragraph 1 of the preceding Article, or when he has been so requested by the person concerned.2. Uniform of Plant Quarantine Official shall be determined by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.CHAPTER 2 FOREIGN PLANT QUARANTINE(QUARANTINE PESTS)Article 52. ‘Quarantine pests’ as used in this Chapter shall mean the injurious animals and plants designated by the Ministerial Ordinance as those which, in case of their spread, are liable to cause damage to economic plants and coincide with either of the following items.(1) Injurious animals and plants not confirmed to exist in Japan.(2) Injurious animals and plants already present in a part of Japan and for which forecast of outbreak or other necessary control measures are being undertaken by the State.2. It shall be the duty of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, in case he intends to establish the Ministerial Ordinance under the provision of the preceding paragraph, to hold a public hearing in advance and hear the opinions of interested parties and persons of knowledge and experience.(LIMITATION ON IMFORT)Article 6. Plants (excluding the plants not used for cultivation and designated by the Ministerial Ordinance as least liable to carry quarantine pests. Hereinafter the same in this and next paragraph) and the packing materials or containers thereof shall not be imported unless the same are acpanied with phytosanitary certificate or a copy thereof issued by the government agency of exporting country certifying that the material has been inspected and found to be, or believed to be, free of injurious animals and plants. However, this shall not apply to the plants and packing materials or containers thereof listed in the following items. (1) Plants and packing materials or containers thereof shipped from the countries having no governmental organization for plant quarantine and which, for this reason, undergo a specially careful inspection under the provisions of this Chapter. (2) Plants and packing materials or containers thereof shipped from the countries designated by the Ministerial Ordinance and on which the matters to be described in the certificate of inspection or the copy thereof are transmitted from the government agency of exporting country, through electronic munication lines, to the puter referred to in Article 2 (Definitions), paragraph 5 and recorded in a file installed in the said puter.2. Plants, shipped from the districts designated by the Ministerial Ordinance and of which inspection at the site of cultivation is required by the Ministerial Ordinance in order to carry out the inspection under the provision of Article 8, paragraph 1 precisely, shall not be imported unless they are, in addition to the pliance with the provision of the preceding paragraph, attached with a certificate of inspection or a copy thereof stating that they are, as a result of inspection in cultivation field by government agency bf exporting country, free or believed to be free of the quarantine pests designated by the Ministerial Ordinance. In this case, the proviso to the preceding paragraph (excluding Item 1) shall apply with necessary modifications.3. Plants or prohibited articles as specified in paragraph 1 of the following Article shall not be imported at any place other than the seaports or airports designated by the Ministerial Ordinance, except the case where the import is made through mail.4. Plants or prohibited articles as specified in paragraph 1 of the following Article shall not be imported as mail other than small packet or postal parcel.5. Any person who