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eradicate all disease from and destroy all insects or 

 fungi on all trees plants or vegetables then growing 

 upon such land ; and such authorized person may at 

 any time enter upon such land to ascertain if such 

 notice has been complied with. 



9. Ci) At the expiration of twenty-one days from o^™er. 



^/ i, ,. r>i • 1 occupier or 



the date or the service or giving or such notice such lessee ^^ 

 authorized person may if he think fit summon the destroy 



i •<, . . insects or 



occupier or owner oi the land to wiiom such notice f"ng:'- 

 was directed to appear Ijefore a court of petty 

 sessions. 



(2) If in the opinion of the court the occupier or 

 owner has failed or neglected to eradicate all disease 

 and destroy all insects or fungi as directed in such 

 notice, the court may make an order in writing 

 authorizing such person or any other person to enter 

 upon such land at any time wdth or wdthout 

 assistants and to eradicate all disease and to destroy 

 all insects or fungi on all trees plants or vegetables 

 then growing or upon such land. 



(3) Every such person shall in any court of com- 

 petent jurisdiction or in a court of petty sessions be 

 entitled to recover from such occupier or owner the 

 expenses of such eradication and destruction together 

 with costs. 



10. (i) If there is no occupier of any land or the where no 

 occupier or owner is unknown to the Minister or land notice 

 absent from Victoria and the Minister cannot ascer- may be at- 

 tain that such occupier or owner has any agent in some con- 

 Victoria, then any notice or order under this Act riace°o"n 

 shall be alHxed in some conspicuous place upon such 



land and a copy thereof shall also be published in 

 some new^spaper circulating in the neighbourhood 

 thereof. Every such notice or order so affixed and 

 published shall be deemed and taken to be a sufficient 

 notice or order to the occupier or owner of such land 

 from the time of its Ijeing so affixed and published. 



