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Penalty for 
breach of 
rule. 
Service of 
notices. 
Penalty for 
misuse, of 
material. 
General 
penalty. 
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( 4 ) An}' per son contravening the provisions of any rule 
made and published under this section shall be liable to fine not 
exceeding five hundred dollars. 
( 5 ) An Inspecting Officer or anv subordinate officer acting 
under the directions of an Inspecting Officer may destroy or 
came to be destroyed any plant introduced into the Colony 
in contravention of any rule made and published under this section. 
23 . —(1) When any notice is required by this Ordinance 
be given to the owner or occupier of any land, such notice 
addressed to the owner or occupier may be served in manner 
following : — 
(a) if the owner or occupier of such land is within the 
Settlement wherein such land is situate, the notice 
may be delivered to him or left with some adult 
member of his family (other than a servant) resi¬ 
ding with him within such Settlement; 
(b) if the notice cannot be served in the manner described 
in paragraph (a) or if the owner or occupier is not 
resident within the Settlement wherein the land is 
situate, it may be sent by registered post addressed 
to him at his residence in the Colony or in any part 
of the Federated Malay States: 
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(c) if the notice cannot be served in the manner described 
in paragraph (a) or paragraph ib) or if there is no 
known owner or occupier of such land, the notice 
may be put up on some conspicuous place on the 
said land. 
(2) It shall not be necessary in any such notice to name the 
owner or occupier, if the land to which the notice relates is 
therein referred to. 
( 3 ) Every such notice shall be in the English language and 
also, if the person for whom it is intended be an Asiatic not 
known to understand the English language, in such other 
language as may in the opinion of the officer signing the notice 
be likely to render it intelligible to such Asiatic; provided that 
no notice shall be deemed to be bad or insufficient by reason 
merely of the language wherein the same is rendered. 
24 . Whenever the Government has supplied any material 
free of charge for the prevention or eradication of any pest, any 
person who wilfully appropriates or uses the same for any pur¬ 
pose other than that for which the said material was supplied 
shall be liable to fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
dollars. 
25 . Every person who commits any breach of the provisions 
of this Ordinance for the breach whereof no penalty is otherwise 
expressly provided shall be liable to fine not exceeding two 
hundred dollars. 
