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(2) An officer of a Local Authority who receives a notice under this 

 Article shall forthwith report the fact to the Local Authority. 



(3) The Local Authority on receiving in any manner notice of the 

 existence or apparent existence of an insect or pest mentioned in the 

 Schedule to this Order shall forthwith transmit the information to the 

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

 extent the insect or pest exists. 



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(2) — 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. 



(3) — (1) 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 or crops on 

 the premises, and the Local Authority shall pay compensation 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, and 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 or 

 the Board as the case may be. 



Penalty on Sale or Use for Planting of Diseased Seeds, &»c. 

 (4) — Every person who shall knowingly use, or sell for use, for 

 planting any plant, seed, tuber, bulb, layer or cutting attacked by an 

 insect or pest mentioned in the Schedule to this Order, or any seed, 

 tuber, bulb, layer or cutting which has been derived from a plant so 



