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present Law or of the ordinances issued thereunder, they may make visit for the 
purpose of inpection; they may examine the person concerned ; they may search 
for or make attachment of any article; they may disinfect or burn the article 
in violation; or they may take any othér steps that are necessary. 
With reference to the said inspection, examination, search or attachment, 
the Penal Law for Offenders. against the Indirect National Tax (Kansetsu 
Kokuzei Hansokusha Shobunho) shall apply in a corresponding manner. 
In case of the Ist paragraph of the present Article, where methods are 
employed by which article in question is excluded from all danger of the spread 
of plant diseases or injurious insects, the provision of the 3rd paragraph of the 
Article I shall not apply. 
Article IX 
Every’ person concerned may be required to bear a part of the expenses 
which may be necessary in the carrying out of the provisions of the Article V, 
or the disposal of the article referred to in the Ist paragrapa of the preceding 
Article, as may be directed by an Imperial Ordinance. 
Article X 
The terms, PLANT DISEASES and INJURIOUS INSECTS, which are used 
in the present Law, mean fungi and insects respectively that are injurious to 
plants. 
Plants or animals that are not fungi or insects, may, if the Department 
Minister who is properly authorized deems that they are actually injurious to 
plants, or suspzcted of being injurious to the same, be considere1 as plant 
diseases or injurious insects in so far as the application of the present Law is 
concerned, 
Ariicle XI 
Every person who is amenable to any one of the following, shall be liable 
to a fine not exceeding one thousand (1,000.00) yert :— 
(1) A person who has avoided the inspection by means of fraud. 
(2) A person who has committed fraudulent act during the course of the 
inspection. 
(3) A person who has acted in contrary to the conditions required in the 
permit given him under Article V. 
(4) A person who has violated the suspention referred to in the Article VI 
or the prohibition or restriction referred to in the Article VII. 
Article XII 
Every person who is amenable to any one of the following, shall be liable to 
a fine not exceeding five hundred (500.00) yen :— 
