Power to take measures for the eradication of silkworm diseases

(1) On receipt of information under section 3 or on the detection of any silkworm disease after inspection under section 4, the Sericultural Expert or any officer authorized by him in this behalf, or the officer making such inspection, may take or cause to be taken such measures as he may consider necessary or expedient to prevent the spread of the disease or to eradicate it, being measures referred to in sub-section (2). (2) Such measures may consist of— (a) the destruction of the seed, silkworm, moth or cocoon; (b) the prohibition for a specified period of the rearing by seed rearers of any species of silkworm in which a silkworm disease has broken out in a virulent form; (c) any other action which may be prescribed. (3) At least twenty-four hours' notice shall be given to the owner or other person in-charge of any object or article which it is intended to destroy under this section.