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No. 13 .of 1913. 
Appointment of 
officers ; 
delegating 
power. 
Supervising 
Committee. 
Entry, 
inspection 
and removal 
(viii) “ Red beetle ” means the beetle designated rJiynchophovus 
ferruginous ; and “ Rhinoceros beetle ’ means the beetle designated 
oryctes rhinoceros, commonly known also as the elephant or black 
beetle and belonging to the group La/mellieornia ; 
(ix) “ Supervising Committee ” means the committee referred to 
in section 4. 
3 . (i) The Chief Secretary may from time to time appoint by name 
or office and when appointed remove so many Inspecting Officers and 
other officers as lie may consider necessary for carrying out^ the 
purposes of this Enactment. The appointment of Inspecting Officers 
shall be notified in the Gazette. 
(ii) The Chief Secretary may also, if he shall think fit, limit the 
area within which such officers or any of them shall exercise the 
powers and perform the duties assigned to them by this Enactment or 
any rules thereunder. 
(iii) With the previous written approval of the Director, which 
may be given generally or be restricted to specified cases, an Inspecting 
Officer may by writing under his hand delegate to any officer sub¬ 
ordinate to him the exercise and performance of any powers or duties 
assigned to an Inspecting Officer by this Enactment or any rules 
thereunder, and such subordinate officer may thereupon exercise and 
perform the powers and duties so delegated. 
(iv) All officers appointed under this section, and all officers to 
whom powers or duties shall have been delegated under this section 
when acting within the scope of the powers or duties so delegated, 
shall be deemed to lie public servants within the meaning of the Penal 
Code. 
4 . (i) For the purposes of this Enactment there shall be a 
Supervising Committee consisting of not less than three persons, of 
whom one shall be the Director and the others shall be nominated 
from time to time by the Chief Secretary; of the persons to be so 
nominated not more than half shall be officers employed in the public 
service; all nominations under this section shall be notified in the 
Gazette. The Director shall be Chairman of the said Committee. 
(ii) Members of the Supervising Committee nominated by the 
Chief Secretary shall, unless expressly nominated for a shorter term, 
ordinarilv retain their membership thereof for a period of five years 
but shall he at liberty to resign their membership at any time and 
may at any time be removed from the Committee bv the Chief 
Secretary by notification in the Gazette. 
5. (i) Every Inspecting Officer shall within the area, it any, 
limited by his appointment have power to enter at all reasonable times 
with or without assistants upon any land alienated for agricultural 
purposes or whereon any plants are or have been cultivated and to 
remain there so long as may be reasonably necessary for the purposes 
of this section and 
(u) to inspect and examine such land and all plants thereon for 
the purpose of ascertaining whether any of such plants 
are diseased or whether such land or any plant thereon 
is in a condition favourable to the introduction or 
spread of any pest; and 
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