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PLANT HEALTH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 3

Control of spread of pests in Northern Ireland.

3.(1) The Ministry may from time to time make such orders as it thinks
expedient [or called for by any Community obligation] for preventing the
spread of pests in Northern Ireland [or the conveyance of pests by articles
exported from Northern Ireland].

(2) The orders may direct or authorise

(a)the removal [treatment] or destruction of any crop, or any seed, plant or
part of a seed or plant [or any container, wrapping or other article] or any
substance, which has on it, or is infected with, a pest or to or by means of
which a pest is in the opinion of the Ministry likely to spread;

(b)the entering on any land [or elsewhere] for the purpose of any removal
[treatment] or destruction authorised by the orders, or any examination or
inquiry so authorised, or for any other purpose of the orders.

(3) The orders may prohibit the selling or exposing or offering for sale, or
the keeping, of living specimens of a pest, or the distribution in any manner
of such specimens.

(4) An order made by the Ministry under this section may provide for offences
against it to be punishable on summary conviction by a fine of not more than
[#100] for a first offence or [#200] for a second or subsequent offence
against the order.

(5) Proceedings for an offence against an order under this section may, ...,
be instituted at any time within twelve months from the day on which the
alleged offence was committed.[

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