(Vide Gazette No . 24 of 21 st February , 1919.) 
No, 261. — The Agricultural Pests Ordinance, 1918. 
Rules made by the Governor in exercise of the powers vested in 
him by section 22 of the Agricultural Pests Ordinance, 1918. 
1. These rules may be cited as the Agricultural Pests Rules, 1919- 
2. No person shall, except with the written permission of the-Direc¬ 
tor of Agriculture, Federated Malay States, in that behalf and subject to 
the terms and conditions, if any, thereby imposed, land or cause to be 
landed in the Colony from any place outside the Colony any plant 01 
Para Rubber (Hevea Braziliensis) exported from the United States ol 
America or from any State in South America or from India ot Burma. 
3. The owner or occupier of land whereon any plant is believed or 
found to be attacked by or affected with any pest specified in the Schedule 
hereto shall, within the period prescribed in the said Schedule, give notice 
thereof in writing or otherwise with particulars of the time and place or 
the discovery, to the Director or to the Inspecting Officer of the area 
within which the discovery was made or to the Officer appointed by the 
Governor to receive such notices; and where practicable a specimen of 
the plant diseased or the pest shall be sent with the notice. 
Provided that no owner or occupier shall be bound to notify under 
this rule the finding on his land of any pest the finding whereof thereon 
shall (to. the knowledge of such owner or occupier) have been duly notified 
by some other person. 
4. An Inspecting Officer on receiving in any manner notice of the 
existence or apparent existence of any pest mentioned in the Schedule 
hereto shall forthwith transmit the information to the Director and take 
such steps as may be necessary to determine to what extent the pest 
exists. 
SCHEDULE. 
Period within which notice 
Name of Pest. , t0 k e S^en. 
1. Pests of Para Rubber 
(a) Pink disease caused by Certicium Within 1 month of first 
Javanieum Zimm ( = C. Zimmer- finding pest, 
mami. S. & Sac =C. Salmenie- 
dor B, & Br.). 
(b) Phytophthora sp. Black stripe Can- Within 14 days of first 
ker, a disease of the renewing finding pest, 
bark. 
(c) Sphaeronemasp. “Mouldy Rot,” a Do. 
disease of the renewing bark. 
2. Pest of Coconuts 
Brachartona catoxantha, Hamps, a Do. 
caterpiller pest attacking leaves. 
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