【正文】 has received plants or prohibited articles specified in paragraph 1 of the following Article as mail other than small packet or postal parcel shall report the same together with the goods concerned, without delay, to the Plant Protection Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.6. When the Ministerial Ordinance as specified in the text of paragraph 1 or in paragraph 2 is to be enacted, the provision in paragraph 2 of the preceding Article shall apply with necessary modifications.(PROHIBITION ON IMPORT)Article 7. No person shall import any article as specified in each of the following items (Hereinafter referred to as 39。PLANT PROTECTION LAWCHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS(PURPOSE OF THE LAW)Article 1. The objective of this Law is to ensure the stabilization and development of agricultural production by inspecting export plants, imported plants and domestic plants, by controlling injurious animals and plants and by preventing the outbreak and spread thereof.(DEFINITIONS)Article 2. 39。Plants39。prohibited39。 (2) Quarantine pests。 (4) Packing materials or containers of the articles specified in each of the preceding items.2. In case the permit under the proviso to the preceding paragraph has been obtained, the import shall be made by having a document, attached thereto, certifying that the permit has been obtained under the same paragraph.3. To the permit under the proviso to paragraph l, necessary conditions such as the method of import and of management thereafter, etc. may be attached.4. In case when the Ministerial Ordinance specified in paragraph 1, Item (1) is to be established, the stipulation under the provision of Article 52, paragraph 2 shall be applied with necessary modifications.(INSPECTION OF IMPORTED PLANT, ETC.)Article 8. Any person who has imported plants or prohibited articles shall, without delay, report the same to the Plant Protection Station of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and shall have the inspection made by the Plant Quarantine Official in its original condition. The inspection shall be made of the plants, packing materials or containers thereof to determine whether or not the provisions of Article 6, paragraphs 1 and 2 are plied with and whether or not the same are prohibited articles or are infested with quarantine pests (excluding the quarantine pests designated by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Hereinafter the same in this and next Article.)。 provided that, if Plant Quarantine Official deems it necessary, it may be made at the location of the items to be inspected.3. Plants required by the importing country to be inspected at the place of cultivation, or other plants designated by the Ministerial Ordinance shall be inspected at the place of cultivation, and unless they have passed this inspection, they shall not be presented for the inspection under paragraph 1.4. Plant Quarantine Official, if he deems it necessary to conform to the requirements of importing country, may reinspect the plants and other materials which have undergone the inspection under paragraph 1.(DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY)Article 11. Procedures and method of inspection and standard for action to be taken due to the result of inspection other than those provided in this Chapter shall be determined and made public by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.2. Tn the case of the preceding paragraph, the provision of Article 52, paragraph 2 shall apply with necessary modifications.CHAPTER 3 DOMESTIC PLANT QUARANTINE(DOMESTIC PLANT QUARANTINE)Article 12. It shall be the duty of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to establish a quarantine service in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter to prevent the spread of injurious animals or plants which have been newly introduced or are already present in a part of the country.(INSPECTION OF DESIGNATED PLANTS)Article 13. Any person who produces the plants for propagation designated by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (hereinafter referred to, respectively, as the ‘plant grovler’ and the ‘designated plants’) shall receive the inspection by the Plant Quarantine Official each year on his designated plants at his cultivating field during the growing season.2. The Plant Quarantine Official may, in case where he deems that the purpose of the control or the prevention of the spread of injurious animals or plants cannot be achieved only by the field inspection under the preceding paragraph, make additional inspections of designated plants before the cultivation or after the harvest thereof.3. It shall be the duty of the Plant Quarantine Official, in case where he deems that the designated plants are free from the injurious animals or plants designated by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as the result of the inspection under the provisions of paragraph 1 or preceding paragraph, to issue the inspection certificate to the plant grower concerned.4. No designated plant shall be transferred, consigned for transfer or removed from any area of cultivation in one prefecture to another area in other prefecture unless the same is acpanied with the inspection certificate of the preceding paragraph or a true copy thereof or a tag identifying the inspection certificate issued by the Plant Quarantine Official.5. It shall be the duty of the Plant Quarantine Official, in case he deems that the designated plants are infested with injurious animals or plants designated under the provision of paragraph 3 as the result of the inspection under the paragraph 1 or 2, to suspend the inspection and to order, verbally or in writing, the plant grower concerned to control the injurious animals or plants concerned, or to take any necessary measures to prevent the spread thereof.6. Any plant grower who has received the order of the preceding paragraph may,