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of any article with regard to the importation of which such a notification 

 has been issued as they have for the time being in respect of any article 

 the importation of which is regulated, restricted or prohibited by the 

 law relating to Sea Customs, and the law for the time being in force 

 relating to Sea Customs or any such article shall apply accordingly. 

 " 5. (1) The Local Government may, subject to the control of the 



Governor General in Council, make rules for the 



Power of Local Govern- detention, inspection, disinfection or destruc- 



ment to make rules. . . f. ■ , t ^- t ■ , 



tion of any article or class of articles in respect 



of which a notification has been issued under section 3 or of any article 

 which may have been in contact or proximity thereto, and foregulating 

 . the powers and duties of the officers whom it may appoint in this behal 

 •• (2) In making any rule under this section the Local Government 

 may direct that a breach thereof shall be punishable with fine, which 

 may extend to one thousand rupees. 



" 6. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against 

 Protection to persons any pBrson for anything in good faith done or 

 acting under Act. intended to be done under this Act." 



A Notification of certain draft rules proposed to be made under 

 this Act was published in the Gazette of India dated 21st March 1914, 

 but these rules did not provide for fumigation and, so far as insect pests 

 were concerned, dealt only with sugarcane, cotton seed, and living 

 rubber and coffee plants. 



Then followed over three years of correspondence regarding various 

 details before there was issued on 7th November 1917, nearly eleven 

 years after the subject was first mooted, a Government Order under 

 this Act, which, with subsequent small amendments, reads as follows : — 



"No. 13-C. 



GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. 



- Department of Revenue and Agriculture. 



Agriculture. 



Delhi, the 7th November 1917. 



' ' In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3, sub-section (i) of 

 the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914 (II of 1914), the Governor 



