Section 7

If, on or as a result of any inspection or examina-tion of land or plants or animal product by an inspecting officer, it shall appear to such inspecting officer that any plant or animal product is diseased in a manner and to an extent which might endanger other plants, such inspecting officer may by notice in writing under his hand, addressed to the owner or occupier of the land whereon such plant or animal product is, direct him to take within a time to be stated in the notice such measures as seem to the inspecting 5

Inspecting officers to he puhlic servants

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Powers of an

Inspecting officer to enter and inspect land, etc.

Power to direct destruction or treatment of plants and pests or treatment of land

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Right of appeal

Agricultural Pests and Noxious Plants officer necessary or expedient for the eradiction or preven-tion of the spread of the pest either by destruction, by re-moval or by treatment in a manner to be specified in the said notice of such diseased or any other plant, or such animal product, or of any pest or of any tools or utensils used for agricultural purposes on such land and the cost of such mea-sures and of the taking thereof shall be defrayed by such owner or occupier of the land.

If, on or as a result of any inspection or examina-tion of land or plants or animal product by an inspecting officer, is shall appear to such officer that any land or plant or animal product is in a condition favourable to the intro-duction or spread of any pest, such inspecting 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 shall in the said notice be specified for the treatment of such land or plant or of any tools or utensils used for agricultural purposes on such land with a view to the bringing of the same into a condition not favourable to the introduction or spread of any pest and the cost of such measures as seem to the inspecting officer necessary or ex-pedient for the eradication or prevention of the spread of the pest either by destruction, by removal or by treatment in a manner to be specified in the said notice of such diseased or any other plant, or such animal product, or of any pest or of any tools or utensils used for agricultural purposes on such land with a view to the bringing of the same into a condition not favourable to the introduction or spread of any pest, and the cost of such measures and of the taking thereof shall be defrayed by such owner or occupier.