( 2 ) Members of the Supervising Committee nominated by 
the Governor shall, unless expressly nominated for a shorter 
term, ordinarily retain their membership thereof for a period of 
five years but shall be at liberty to resign their membership at 
any time and may at any time be removed from the Committee 
by the Governor by notification in the Gazette . 
5 , —(i) Every Inspecting Officer shall within the area, if 
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 is reasonably 
necessary for the purposes of this section and 
{a) to inspect and examine such land and all plants there¬ 
on 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 
(b) to remove by cutting, digging or otherwise such 
portions of any plant as he thinks expedient to 
remove for purposes of examination or investi¬ 
gation. 
( 2 ) 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 is 
requested by him and is reasonably necessary for the said 
purposes. 
6 . —( 1 ) If on or as a result of any inspection or examination 
of land or plants by an Inspecting Officer it appears 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 seem to the Inspecting 
Officer necessary or expedient for the eradication or the preven¬ 
tion of the spread of any pest. 
( 2 ) If on or as a result of any inspection or examination of 
land or plants by an Inspecting Officer it appears to such officer 
that any land or plant is in a condition favourable to the intro¬ 
duction 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 are in the 
said notice 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. 
Entry, 
inspection 
and removal 
Power to 
direct de 9 » 
truction or 
treatment o! 
plants or 
pests or 
treatment 
and. 
