COMMONPLACE NOTES. 



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Powers of Entry. 



2. An Inspector or other officer appointed in that behalf by the 

 Local Authority and any Inspector of the Board may, upon production 

 ii 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 he taken hy 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 compensation 

 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 com- 

 pleted. 



(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 primd 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, d: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 

 attacked and is capable of spreading the insect or pest, shall be liable 

 on conviction to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds. 



