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A.U. 1918. 
Ss. 11-13. 
(2) So long as an order of quarantine applies to any 
land no person shall remove any plant therefrom except 
with the permission and under and in accordance with 
the direction of an inspecting officer. 
(3) Any land placed in quarantine under subsection (1) 
shall continue in quarantine until the Director certifies 
that no plants thereon are diseased. 
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Application 11.— (1) Any owner or occupier of land quarantined 
under section 10 may apply to an inspecting officer to 
quarantined examine the quarantined area with a view to obtaining* 
from the Director the certificate referred to in section 10 
(3). 
(2) The inspecting officer shall, as soon as convenient 
after receipt of such application, visit and examine the 
said area. 
(3) Every such application except the first shall be 
accompanied by a deposit of ten dollars towards the cost 
of such visit and examination. 
(4) If the cost thereof amounts to less than ten dollars, 
the balance remaining after deduction of the said cost 
shall be refunded to the depositor. 
Power to 12.- — (1) If in the opinion of the Director the destruc- 
diateSmc- 1 1 on of any diseased plant is a matter of necessity and 
tion of plants, extreme urgency, he may forthwith make an order in 
writing directing the immediate destruction of such plant 
by any person referred to in the order. 
(2) The said plant shall be destroyed accordingly and 
the cost of such destruction, if incurred by any person 
other than the owner or occupier of the land whereon 
such diseased plant was. shall be defrayed by such owner 
or occupier. 
Entry for 13. — (1) Every inspecting officer may, within the area, 
if any, limited by his appointment, 
(a) enter at all reasonable times, with or without 
assistants, upon any land and remain there 
so long as is reasonably necessary for the pur¬ 
pose of ascertaining whether any locust’s eggs 
or any locusts in the stage in which they are 
known as hoppers are in or upon such land; 
(b) enter, with or without assistants and with such 
instruments and things, if any, as he deems 
regard to 
locusts’ eggs 
and locusts. 
AGRICULTURAL PESTS. 
A.t>. 1918. 
S. 14. 
AGRICULTURAL PESTS. 
necessary, upon any land on or in which there 
are any locust’s eggs or any locusts in the 
stage in which they are known as hoppers 
and may take and cause to be taken thereon 
any action, whether by means of poison or of 
mechanical apparatus or otherwise howsoever, 
which he deems proper for the destruction 
of such eggs or locusts; provided that where 
the powers mentioned in this paragraph are 
exercised in pursuance of authority delegated 
under section 3 (4) the action to be taken for 
the destruction of eggs or locusts shall be 
restricted to such action as has been expressly 
authorized in writing by the delegating 
officer. 
(2) No person shall obstruct or inter fere^with any 
thing done or in course of being done under this section. 
14. —(1) Whenever locusts’ eggs are found or locusts 
in the stage in which they are known as hoppers appear occupier on 
on any land, the occupier or, if there is no occupier, the 
owner thereof shall, as soon as he becomes aware that or hoppers, 
such eggs have been found or such locusts have appeared 
thereon, forthwith 
(a) give notice thereof in writing or otherwise to an 
inspecting officer or at the nearest Land Office 
or police station, with such particulars as are 
prescribed by rule under this Ordinance; 
(b) use his utmost endeavours immediately to destroy 
the eggs or locusts, as the case may be; 
(c) carry into effect all instructions given to him in 
that behalf by an inspecting officer; and 
(d) render all assistance in his power towards carry¬ 
ing out any action taken or directed by an 
inspecting officer for the purpose of destroy¬ 
ing the eggs or locusts and, in particular, 
place at the disposal of the inspecting officer, 
on demand, for such period not exceeding one 
week as the inspecting officer requires, so many 
of the labourers, if any, employed by him 
on the land whereon such action is or is to 
be taken, or on any other land owned or 
occupied by him which is distant not more 
than three miles by direct measurement from 
