(Vide Gazette No, 67 of nth June, 1920.) 
No. 1011. —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, 
amending the Agricultural Pests Rules, 1919. 
1. These rules may be cited as the Agricultural Pests Rules, 
1919, Amendment Rules, 1920. The rules published in Notification 
No. 261 of Gazette No. 24 of the 21st February, 1919, are hereby 
cancelled. 
2. No person shall, except with the written permission of the 
Director of Agriculture, Federated Malay States and Straits Settle- 
merits 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 of Para Rubber (Hevea 
brasiliensis) exported from the Continent of America and islands 
thereof or from India or 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 particu¬ 
lars of the time and place of 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. 
Name of Pest. 
Period within which 
notice to he given. 
1. Pests of Para Rubber— 
0) r - ----- 
Within one month of first 
finding pest. 
(h) Black Stripe Canker caused by") 
Phytophthora sp. a disease of the J> 
renewing bark. J 
l Within 14 days of first 
j finding pest. 
(c) Mouldy Rot caused by Sphaeronema 
sp. a disease of the renewing bark. 
Do. 
2. Pests of Coconuts— 
Brachartona catoxantha, Hamps, a cater¬ 
pillar pest attacking leaves. 
Do. 
