APPENDIX III 



LEGISLATION ENFORCING THE DESTRUCTION OF 



NOXIOUS WEEDS IN THE CHIEF AGRICULTURAL 



COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD 



LEGISLATION for the prevention of the dissemination of noxious 

 weeds exists in the majority of the chief agricultural countries of 

 the world. In the British Empire more or less stringent laws 

 in this behalf are on the Statute Books of the Australasian and 

 South African Colonies ; but in the British Islands the only laws 

 requiring the destruction of weeds refer to Ireland and the 

 Isle of Man. A summary of these laws, and of those of such 

 foreign countries for which it has been found possible to obtain 

 information, is given below. 



UNITED KINGDOM 



There are no laws or regulations in force in Great Britain 

 which render compulsory the destruction of weeds ; but it will 

 be of interest if the provisions of the Adulteration of Seeds Acts, 

 1869 and 1878, are stated here. 



The Adulteration of Seeds Act, 1869, provides that every 

 person who, with intent to defraud or to enable another person 

 to defraud, " kills or causes to be killed any seeds ; or, dyes or 

 causes to be dyed any seeds ; or, sells or causes to be sold any 

 killed or dyed seeds," shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 ^5 for a first offence, or to a penalty not exceeding ^50 for a 

 second or subsequent offence. In the case of a second or 

 subsequent offence the Court is empowered, besides inflicting 

 the penalty, "to order the offender's name, occupation, place 

 of abode, and place of business, and particulars of his 

 punishment under this Act, to be published, at the expense of 

 such offender, in such newspaper or newspapers, or in such 



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