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No. 13 of 1913 
Penalty for 
wilful default. 
Placing land in 
quarantine. 
Application for 
examination of 
quarantined 
area. 
Power to order 
immediate 
destruction 
of plants. 
things as may be necessary and may proceed to perform and do 
thereon all acts and things required by the said notice to be performed 
or done, and the cost thereof shall be recoverable from the said owner 
or occupier by the Director, or any person authorized in that behalf 
by the Director, by civil suit. 
(ii) Nothing in this section contained shall affect any liability of 
any person to prosecution and punishment under section 9. 
9. If any owner or occupier of land on whom a notice under the 
provisions of section 6 has been served shall wilfully neglect to 
comply therewith within the time therein stated, he shall be liable to 
fine not exceeding live hundred dollars : provided that no person shall 
be punishable under this section for neglect to comply with any 
notice tlie operation of which shall have been suspended or cancelled 
by the Supervising Committee under the provisions of section 7, and 
provided further that, where the said Committee lias under the 
provisions of section 7 made an order varying the terms of any such 
notice, tlie~potiee as so varied shall for the purposes of this section 
and of section 8 lie deemed to be the notice under tlie provisions 
of section 6. 
10. (i) Whenever the Director is of opinion that plants on any 
land are diseased, he may with the approval of the Resident ol 
the State wherein such land is situate make an order placing such land 
or any part thereof in quarantine for such period as may be prescribed 
bv the order. 
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(ii) 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. 
(iii) Any land placed in quarantine under sub-section (i) shall 
continue in quarantine until the Director shall certify that no plant# 
thereon are diseased. 
11. Any owner or occupier of land quarantined under section 10 
may applv to an Inspecting Officer to examine tlie quarantined area 
with a view to obtaining from tlie Director the certificate referred to 
in sub-section (iii) of section 10, and the Inspecting Officer shall 
as soon as convenient after receipt of such application visit and 
examine the said area; provided that every such application 
except the first shall be accompanied by a deposit of ten dollars 
towards the cost of such visit and examination, and if the cost 
thereof shall amount to less than ten dollars the balance 
remaining after deduction of the said cost shall be refunded to the 
depositor. 
12. If in the opinion of the Director tlie destruction of any 
diseased plant is a matter of necessity and extreme urgency, he may 
forthwith make an order in writing directing the immediate destruc¬ 
tion of such plant by any person referred to in the order, and the 
said plant shall be destroyed accordingly and the cost of such des¬ 
truction, if incurred by any person other than the owner or occupier 
of the land whe v eon such diseased plant was, shall be defrayed by 
such owner or occupier. 
