A.D. 1918. 
Ss. 15 & 16. 
AGRICULTURAL PESTS. 
+ 
Penalty. 
Driving of 
locusts. 
Duty of 
owners of 
coconut trees 
attacked by 
beetles. 
. 
- -, c - ■ 9$ 
the land whereon such action is or is to be 
taken, as the inspecting officer requires, not 
exceeding one-half of the total number so 
employed. 
(2) Any owner or occupier who places labourers at the 
disposal of an inspecting officer in pursuance of sub¬ 
section ( 1 ) (d) shall be entitled to recover from public 
funds in respect of every such labourer whose services have 
been utilised by the inspecting officer such amount as is 
prescribed by rule under section 22 . 
(B) Any other expenditure incurred by an owner or 
occupier in the destruction of eggs or locusts which is 
certified as reasonable by an inspecting officer shall, 
subject to the approval of the Resident Councillor or 
Resident of the Settlement in which such destruction of 
eggs or locusts was effected, be recoverable by him from 
public funds. 
( 4 ) Any person who commits a breach of this section 
shall be liable to fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
dollars. 
15, Any person, who wilfully drives or abets the 
driving of locusts in the stage in which they are known 
as hoppers off land owned or occupied by any person on 
to other land owned or occupied by a different person, 
shall be liable to fine not exceeding five hundred dollars 
unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that 
growing crops on the land off which the locusts were 
driven were in danger from them, and that in driving 
them off such land* he used his utmost endeavours to 
destroy them and did not drive them towards the growing 
crop of any other person. 
16—(1) Every owner of coconut trees which are 
attacked by beetles shall clear the trees of beetles within 
one month from the service upon him of a notice in that 
behalf signed by a Collector or Deputy Collector of Land 
Revenue in the place where such trees are situated. 
( 2 ) The owner or person in charge of every coconut 
tree which is dead or is attacked beyond recovery by the 
rhinoceros beetle or the red beetle shall forthwith uproot 
such tree, and either consume it with fire or bury it in 
the ground at a depth of not less than three feet so that 
the beetle and all eggs and larvae thereof may be totally 
AGRICULTURAL RESTS. 
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9 
A.D. 1918. 
Ss. 17-19. 
destroyed and that the tree may not serve as a breeding 
place for rhinoceros beetles or red beetles. 
(3) Any person who without reasonable excuse, the Vo™**?. 
burden of proof whereof shall lie on him, neglects or 
refuses to perform any duty imposed upon him by this 
section, shall be liable to fine not exceeding two dollars 
for every tree in respect of which such neglect or refusal 
occurs. 
( 4 ) Any such officer as is in section 17 referred to may 
cause to be performed the duty so neglected or refused to 
be performed and may recover the cost of such perform¬ 
ance by civil suit from the person so neglecting or 
refusing as aforesaid. 
17. —(1) All coconut trees in every mukim shall be Inspection of 
periodically inspected by the penghulu of the mukim, who 
shall report to a Collector or Deputy Collector of Land 
Revenue in the place where such trees are situated or to 
such other officer as the Resident Councillor or Resident 
of the Settlement by notification in the Gazette appoints 
in that behalf such trees as are infected with rhinoceros 
beetles or red beetles. 
( 2 ) Any Collector or Deputy Collector as aforesaid or 
any other officer appointed as aforesaid may order that 
any coconut tree infected with rhinoceros beetles or red 
beetles shall be cleaned or cut down or be burned or buried 
in the manner prescribed in section 16, and the penghulu 
of the mukim wherein such tree is situated shall see that 
such order is carried out. 
(3) The duties assigned by this section to penghulus 
of mukims shall, in any mukim for which there is no 
penghulu, be performed by such native officer as is 
directed by such Collector or Deputy Collector as afore¬ 
said to perform the said duties. 
18 . —( 1 ) The Governor mav make such compensation Compensation 
as he thinks fit to any owner of a coconut tree who, being of 
in needy circumstances, is required to destroy such tree. coconut trees. 
(2) The compensation in respect of any one tree shall 
not exceed five dollars and the compensation given in 
one year to any one person shall not exceed one hundred 
dollars. 
19. —( 1 ) Any person who keeps on his premises dead Destruction 
coconut trees or stumps, coconut timber, rubbish heaps, X^iykThar- 
bour beetles. 
