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to the Board and take such steps as may be necessary to determine 

 to what extent the insect or pest exists." 



Powers of Entry. II. An Inspector or other officer appointed 

 in that behalf by the Local Authority, and any Inspector of the 

 Board may, upon production if so required of his appointment or 

 authority, enter any premises on which he has reason to believe 

 that an insect or pest mentioned in the Schedule to this Order 

 exists or has recently existed, and examine any plant, fruit, crop, 

 seeds, tubers, bulbs, layers or. cuttings on such premises." 



Action to be taken by Local Authority. III. i . An Inspector 

 or other officer of the Local Authority or of the Board, acting 

 under their direction, may at any time and from time to time by 

 a notice served on an occupier of premises on which an insect or 

 pest mentioned in the Schedule hereto exists or recently has existed, 

 require him to adopt such measures for prevention of the spread 

 of the insect or pest as are specified in the notice. 



2 . Where a Local Authority have consented to pay compensa- 

 tion for such destruction, the notice under this Article may require 

 the occupier of premises on which an insect or pest mentioned in 

 the Schedule hereto exists or recently has existed, to destroy by 

 burning or other effective method all or any of the plants, fruit of 

 crops on the premises, and the Local Authority shall pay compen- 

 sation for such destruction subject and according to the provisions 

 in that behalf of the Destructive Insects and Pests Acts, 1877 

 and 1907. 



3. A notice under this Article may prescribe the time within 

 which the adoption of any measure thereby prescribed shall be 

 completed. 



4. An occupier may appeal to the Board against a notice, served 

 on him under this Article by an Inspector or other officer of the 

 Local Authority, a.id the Board may, after consultation with the 

 Local Authority, cancel the notice or modify its requirements in 

 such manner as the Board think fit. 



5. For the purposes of this Order a notice shall be deemed to 

 be served on a person if it is delivered to him personally or left 

 for him at his last known place of abode or business, or sent 

 through the post in a letter addressed to him there, and a notice 

 or other document purporting to be signed by an Inspector or other 

 officer of a Local Authority or of the Board, shall be prima facie 

 evidence that it was signed by him acting under the directions of 

 the Local Authority of the Board as the case may be." 



