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(b) to remove bvxiutting, digging or otherwise such portions 
of any plant as he may think expedient to remove for 
purposes of examination or investigation. 
(ii) The owner and occupier of such land shall permit every 
Inspecting Officer to have access thereto for the said purposes and 
shall supply to such officer all such information as may be requested 
by him and may be reasonably necessary for the said purposes. 
6 . (i) If on or as a result of any inspection or examination of land or 
plants by an Inspecting Officer it shall appear to such officer that any 
plant is diseased, such officer may by notice in writing under his hand, 
addressed to the owner or occupier of the land whereon such plant is, 
direct him to take within a time to be stated in the notice such 
measures, either by destruction of such plant or by treatment in a 
manner to be specified in the said notice of such plant or of any pest 
whereby such plant is attacked or wherewith it is affected, as may 
seem to the Inspecting Officer necessary or expedient for the eradica¬ 
tion or the prevention of the spread of any pest. 
(ii) If on or as a result of any inspection or examination of land 
or plants by an Inspecting Officer it shall appear to such officer that 
any land or plant is in a condition favourable to the introduction or 
spread of any pest, such officer may by notice in writing ' under 
his hand, addressed to the owner or occupier of the land whereon such 
condition exists, direct him to take within a time to be stated in the 
notice such measures as may in the said notice be specified for the 
treatment of such land or plant with a view to the bringing of the 
same into a condition not favourable to the introduction or spread of 
any pest . 
7 . If any owner or occupier of land on whom a notice under the 
provisions of section 6 has been served is of opinion that any act or 
thing required by such notice to be performed or done is unreasonable 
or unnecessary, he may by an application in writing addressed to the 
Supervising Committee and despatched by registered post to or 
otherwise delivered at the office of the Director of Agriculture in Kuala 
Lumpur within seven days from the service of the said notice and 
setting forth the grounds on which such application is based apply to 
the said Committee for an order cancelling or varying the said notice 
and shall forthwith notify the Inspecting Officer by whom the said 
notice was signed that the said application has been made. The said 
Committee may on receipt of such application suspend the operation 
of the notice or make such other order in the premises as it may 
think just; provided that if the notice in respect of which an applica¬ 
tion is made shall have, been signed by a member of the Supervising 
Committee, such member shall take no part in the proceedings of the 
Committee upon such application ; provided further that, pending 
any order by the said Committee to the contrary, the said notice shall 
remain in force as if such application had not been made. 
8. (i) If any owner or occupier of land on whom a notice under 
the provisions of section 6 has been served shall fail to comply 
therewith within such time as may be stated in the notice for the 
performance of the acts thereby required to be done, the Inspecting 
Officer may, subject to any order made under section 7 by the Super¬ 
vising Committee, enter upon (he land to which the notice refers and 
may cause to enter thereon such persons with such instruments and 
Power to direct 
destruction or 
treatment of 
.plants or pests 
or treatment of 
land. 
Application to 
Supervising 
Committee. 
Enforcement of 
the action 
directed. 
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