AGRICULTURAL PESTS. 
12 
A.D. 1918, 
S. 23. 
Penalty for 
breach of 
rule. 
(6) All rules made under this section shall be published 
in the Gazette and shall thereupon have the force of 
law. 
(7) Any person who contravenes any rule made and 
published under this section shall be liable to fine not 
exceeding five hundred dollars. 
(8) An inspecting officer or any subordinate officer 
acting under the directions of an inspecting officer may 
destroy or cause to be destroyed any plant introduced into 
the Colony in contravention of any rule made and 
published under this section. 
Service of 23. — (1) When any notice is required by this Ordin¬ 
ance to be given to the owner or occupier of any land, 
such notice addressed to the owner or occupier may be 
served in manner following :— 
(a) if the owner or occupier of such land is within 
the Settlement wherein such land is situate, 
the notice may be delivered to him or left with 
some adult member of his family, other than 
a servant, residing with him within such 
Settlement; 
(b) if the notice cannot be served in the manner 
described in paragraph (a) or if the owner or 
occupier is not resident within the Settlement 
wherein the land is situate, it may be sent by 
registered post addressed to him at his 
residence in the Colony or in any part of the 
Federated Malay States; 
(c) if the notice cannot be served in the manner 
described in paragraphs (a) or (b) or if there 
is no known owner or occupier of such land, 
the notice may be put up on some conspicuous 
place on the said land. 
(2) It shall not be necessary in any such notice to name 
the owner or occupier, if the land to which the notice 
relates is therein referred to. 
(3) Every such notice shall be in the English language 
and also, if the person for whom it is intended is an 
Asiatic not known to understand the English language, 
in such other language as in the opinion of the officer 
sinning the notice is likelv to render it intelligible to such 
A. 
AGRICULTURAL PESTS. 
Asiatic; provided that no notice shall be deemed to be 
. bad or insufficient by reason merely of the language 
wherein the same is rendered. 
24. Whenever the Government has supplied any 
material free of charge for the prevention or eradication 
of any pest, any person who wilfully appropriates or uses 
the same for any purpose other than that for which the 
saicf material was supplied shall be liable to fine not 
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. 
25. Every person who commits any breach of this 
Ordinance for the breach whereof no penalty is otherwise 
expressly provided shall be liable to fine not exceeding 
two hundred dollars. 
26. No proceedings shall be instituted in any Court 
against any person under any provision of this Ordinance 
other than sections 16 and 19 except with the written 
authority of the Director. 
Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, London. 
1920. 
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for the purpose of this Edition of Laics within the meaning of the Evidence 
[Colonial Statutes) Act., 1907.'] 
13 
o. 1918. 
Ss. 24 26. 
Penalty for 
misuse of 
material. 
General 
penalty. 
Proceedings 
to be 
authorized by 
Director. 
