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q 6 . No proceedings shall be instituted in any Court against Proceedings 
any person under any provision of this Ordinance other than authorized by 
. - lions 16 and 19 except with the written authority of the Director. 
1 ) ' rector. 
27 . The Coconut Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1890 is Repeal, 
hereby repealed. < 
OBJECTS AND REASONS 
This Bill gives power to control the introduction and spread of pests 
injurious to cultivation. 
2 . Amongst these powers is the power— 
(а) to prohibit the landing in the Colony of any plant or animal which 
may be likely to introduce any pest ; 
(б) to treat or destroy any plant or animal which has been landed and 
any package, case, etc., in which it miy be packed ; 
(c) to enter on cultivated land and examine its condition and the 
plants thereon for the purpose of ascertaining whether any of 
the plants are diseased or whether the land or any plant thereon 
is in a condition favourable for the introduction or spread of 
any pest; 
(d) to make orders as to the treatment or destruction of plants and, 
in default of obedience, to do the work and recover from the 
defaulter the expense thereof; 
(e) to make orders placing any land, on which there' are diseased 
plants, in quarantine for such period as is ordered. 
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3 . The officers to be appointed under clause 3 for carrying out the pur¬ 
poses of the Bill will perform their duties under the directions of the 
Director of Agriculture, Federated Malay States. 
4 . Special provisions aiming at the extermination of locusts are contained 
in clauses 13 to 15 of the Bill. 
5 . The provisions of the Coconut Trees Preservation Ordinance 1290 
are incorporated in the Bill and the Ordinance is repealed. 
A rTORNEY-GENERAL’S CHAMBERS, 
SINGAPORE, 29 th January, 1918 
G. AUBREY GOODMAN, 
A ttorney- General, S. S< 
