Power to declare insect pests and plant diseases and direct measures to eradicate or prevent them

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Part II PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES

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(i) declare that such pest or disease is an insect pest or plant disease;
(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 remedical measures, including the destruction of any insect pest or, plant disease of any plants as the '[State Government] may deem necessary, in order to, eradicate such pest or disease or to prevent its introduction spread or re-appearance; and
(v) prescribe the period within which it shall not be lawful to plant within a specified crop, the whole or any portion of the notified area.

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