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Power of Governor to do certain things. 



3. The Governor may, from time to time, by Proclamation, do any of 

 the following acts : 



(i.) Eevoke, either wholly or partially, any Proclamation which is in 

 force at the time of the coming into operation of this Act, and 

 which was issued for any purpose for which a Proclamation or 

 Order in Council may be issued under this Act ; 



(2.) Prohibit, either absolutely or except in accordance with regula- 

 tions under this Act, the introduction into Western Australia, 

 either generally or from any specified colony, country, port, or 

 place, of any plant, fruit, fungus, parasite, insect, or anything 

 which, in his opinion, is likely to introduce any disease into 

 Western Australia; 



(3.) Prohibit, either absolutely or except in accordance with regula- 

 tions under this Act, the bringing into any specified portion of 

 Western Australia, from any other portion or specified portion 

 of Western Australia, of any specified plant, fruit, fungus, 

 parasite, insect, or other thing which, in his opinion, is diseased 

 or likely to spread disease ; 



(4.) Appoint any specified ports to be the only ports of entry for 

 plants or fruit, or for any specified plant or fruit ; 



(5.) Appoint quarantine grounds where plants or fruit, and the 

 packages containing the same or with which the same may 

 have come in contact, may be detained for the purpose of being 

 inspected, disinfected, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of ; 



(6.) Eevoke any Proclamation made under this Act. 



Appointment of officers. 



4. (i.) The Governor may, from time to time, appoint such inspectors 

 and other officers, with such powers and functions as he deems necessary in 

 order to carry out the provisions of this Act. 



(2.) All inspectors and other officers appointed under the Acts herein- 

 after repealed shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act. 



Eradication of diseases in orchards. 



5. Every occupier of any orchard shall at all times do whatever is 

 necessary in order to eradicate such disease from such orchard, and prevent 

 the spread thereof. 



Notice of disease appearing to be given. 



Q. Every occupier of any orchard in which any disease appears shall, 

 withia twenty-four hours after first discovering or becoming aware of its 

 presence, give written notice thereof to the Secretary for Agriculture, at 

 Perth. 



Declaration of " infected places." 



7. If at any time it appears to an inspector or other authorised officer 

 that any disease exists, or has, within the preceding three months, existed, 

 in any orchard, or amongst the plants there growing, and that in order to 

 eradicate or prevent the spread of such disease such orchard should be 

 declared to be infected, he shall notify the fact to the occupier of such 

 orchard, and also to the Secretary for Agriculture, who shall notify the 

 same to the Minister, whereupon the following provisions shall apply : 



(i.) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare 

 that such orchard, together with such area of land contiguous 

 to or surrounding the same as he thinks expedient, is an 

 infected place within the meaning of this Act. 



