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7 .—( 1 ) 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 thin:* required by such notice to be performed 
or done is unreasonable or unnecessary, he may by an application 
in writ!tog addressed to the Supervising Committee and des-- 
p.itched 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 shill forthwith notify the Inspecting Officer by whom the 
said notice was signed that the said application has been made. 
(2) 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 thinks just; provided that if the notice in 
respect of which an application is made has been signed by a 
member of the Supervising Committee, such member shall take 
no part i:i the proceedings of the Committee upon such applica¬ 
tion ; provided further that, pending any order bv the said Com¬ 
mittee to the contrary, the said notice shall remain in force as if. 
such application had not been made. 
8 .—C) If any owner or occupier of land on whom a notice 
under the provisions of section 6 has been served fails 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 Supervising Committee, enter upon the la id to which 
the notice refers and may cause to enter thereon such persons 
with such instruments and firings as may be necessary and may 
proceed to perform and do thereon all acts and things 
required by the said notice to be performed or done, and the 
cost thereof shall be recoverable from the said owner or occupier 
by the D rector, or any person authorized in that behalf by the 
Direct r, by civil suit. 
( 2 ) Nothing in this section contained shall affect any liabi¬ 
lity of any person to prosecution and punishment under section 9 . 
9 . If any owner or occupier of land on whom a notice 
un ler the provisions of section 6 has been served wilfully neglects 
to comply therewith within the time therein stated, he shall be 
liable to fine not exceeding five hundred dollars; provided that 
no person shall be punishable under this section for neglect to 
comply with any notice the operation of which has been sus¬ 
pended or cancelled by the Supervising Committee under the 
provisions of section 7 , and provided further that, where the said 
Committee has under the provisions of section 7 made an order 
varying the terms of any such notice, the notice as so varied 
shall for the purposes of this section and of section 8 be deemed 
to be the notice under the provisions of section 6. 
