Power of State Government to prohibit or regulate the bringing into or taking out of the State fruit plants.

The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit or regulate, subject to such restrictions and conditions as it may impose, the bringing into, or taking out of the State, otherwise than across a customs frontier as defined by the Central Government, or the transport within the State, of any fruit plant of unknown pedigree or affected by any infectious or contagious disease or pest. Nobody can bring horticulture plants from outside the state without obtaining the Phytosanitary Certificate issued by the designated authority of the State of Punjab as notified by the Plant Protection Adviser to Government of India, Directorate of Plant Protection Quarantine and Storage, Faridabad.