Power to declare insect, vertebrate or invertebrate animal, plant diseases and noxious weeds and direct measures to eradicate or prevent them

Whenever it appears to the Central Government that any insect, Vertebrate or invertebrate animal, disease or weed is injurious to plants in any local area and that it is necessary to take measures to eradicate such insect, vertebrate or invertebrate animal, disease or weed, or to prevent its introduction, spread or reappearance, the Central Government, may, by notification in the Official Gazette— (i) declare such insect, vertebrate or invertebrate animal to be a pest or such disease or weed to be a plant disease or noxious weed, respectively; (ii) specify the local area within which and the period during which such declaration shall remain in force; (iii) prohibit or restrict the movement or removal of any plant, earth, soil, manure or other thing from one place to another; (iv) direct the carrying out of such preventive or remedial measures, including the destruction of any pest, plant disease or noxious weed or any plants as the Central Government may deem necessary, in order to eradicate such pest, disease or weed or to prevent its introduction, spread or reappearance; and (v) prescribe the period within which it shall not be lawful to plant with a specified crop the whole or any portion of the notified area.