8 
No. IB of 1913. 
Penalty for 
misuse of 
material. 
General 
penalty. 
Proceedings to 
lie authorized 
by Director. 
Provisions 
regarding 
actions. 
(b) if the notice cannot be served in the manner described in 
« clause (a) or if the owner or occupier be not resident 
within the State wherein the land is situate, it may be 
sent by registered post addressed to him at his residence 
in any part of the Federated Malay States or in the 
Colony ; 
(р) if the notice cannot be served in the manner described in 
clause (a) or clause ( b) or if there he no known owner 
or occupier of such land, the notice may be put up on 
some conspicuous place on the said land. 
(ii) 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. 
(iii) Every such notice shall be in the English language and also, 
if the person for whom it is intended be an Asiatic not known to 
understand the English language, in such other language as may in 
the opinion of the officer signiug the notice be likely to render it 
intelligible to such Asiatic ; provided that no notice shall be deemed 
to be bad or insufficient by reason merely of the language wherein the 
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same is rendered. 
23 . Whenever the Government shall have supplied any material. 
free of charge for the prevention or eradication of any pest, any 
person who shall wilfully appropriate or use the same for any purpose 
other than that for which the said material was supplied shall be 
liable to fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. 
24 . Every person who shall commit any breach of the provisions 
of this Enactment for the breach whereof no penalty is otherwise 
expressly provided shall be liable to line not exceeding two hundred 
dollars. ' 
25 . No proceedings shall be instituted in any Court against any 
person under any provision of this Enactment other than sections 15 
and 18 except with the written authority of the Director. 
26 . (i) No action shall be brought against any person for 
anything done, or bona fide intended to be done, in the exercise or 
supposed exercise of the powers given by this Enactment, or by any 
rules made thereunder 
(a) without giving to such person one month’s previous 
notice in writing of the intended action and of the 
cause thereof ; 
(b) after the expiration of three months from the date of the 
accrual of the cause of action ; 
(с) after tender of sufficient amends. 
(ii) In every action so brought it shall be expressly alleged that 
the defendant acted either maliciously or negligently and without 
reasonable or probable cause, and if at the trial the plaintiff shall fail 
to prove such allegation judgment shall be given for the defendant. 
(iii) Though judgment shall he given for the plaintiff in any such 
action, such plaintiff shall not have costs against the defendant Tinless 
the Court, before which the action is tried, shall certify its approbation 
of the action. 
