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5. The owner or proprietor of any nursery shall not send out or permit 

 any plant to be removed from his nursery without the same being first fumi- 

 gated by hydrocyanic acid gas in accordance with regulations prescribed by 

 order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 



6. No person shall sell or dispose of or offer for sale any plant obtained, 

 taken, or sent out from a nursery unless the said plant has previously been 

 fumigated in accordance with these regulations. 



7. In case the inspector finds scale in any nursery and so reports to the 

 Minister, the Minister may thereupon inform in writing, the owner or pro- 

 prietor or manager of said nursery of the existence of scale in his nursery, 

 and the owner or proprietor or manager of said nursery shall not thereafter 

 permit any plant or plants to be removed from the said nursery until he is 

 notified in writing from the Minister that the inspector has reported to the 

 Minister that it is safe in the public interest to permit the said nursery stock 

 to be removed after fumigation. 



8. For the purpose of scientific investigation the Minister may from time 

 to time, by writing given under his hand, except such persons as he may 

 deem proper from the operation of the two preceding sections, and, while 

 acting under such permission, such persons shall not be subject to the penalties 

 imposed by this Act. 



9. Any person having reason to suspect that any plant in his possession, 

 or in his charge, or keeping, is infested with the scale shall forthwith com- 

 municate with the Minister in regard to the same, and shall furnish the 

 Minister with all such information in regard to the source or origin of the 

 said infestation and nature of the same as he may be able to give. 



10. — (1) Whenever the scale exists, or is supposed to exist on any plant, 

 the Minister may direct a competent person to make an examination and 

 inspection, and may order that any plant so infested, or such part as he 

 may deem advisable, shall be immediately destroyed by burning, either by 

 the person appointed to make the inspection, or by the person owning or 

 having possession of the said plant, or some other person so directed in 

 writing, and the person so directed shall make a full report to the Minister 

 in writing as to the nature and extent of the work so performed, together 

 with a fair estimate of the value of the plant destroyed. 



(2) If, in the case of an orchard or collection of plants, the inspector 

 finds scale on plants located in several different parts of the orchard or collec- 

 tion, and decides that it is advisable in the public interest to destroy all the 

 plants in such orchard, or in any part or parts thereof and so reports to the 

 Minister, the Minister may direct that an examination or inspection shall 

 be made by an additional inspector, and upon their advice in writing he may 

 direct that all the plants in such orchard or such collection of plants or in 

 such orchard or such collection of plants or in such part or parts thereof shall 

 be destroyed without requiring that every plant in the said orchard or col- 

 lection shall be first examined. 



