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Commencement: 1st August 1971 s.t37171
This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Pests and Short title
Noxious Plants Act.
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In this Act unless the context otherwise requires -
Interpretation
"dangerous pest" means any pest which His
Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Coun-cil by notification in the Gazette declares to be a dangerous pest for the purposes of this Act;
"disease" means attacked by or infected or affected with any pest;
"inspecting officer" means any inspecting officer appointed under section 3 and includes the Direc-tor of Agriculture;
"land" includes things attached to the earth or per-manently fastened to anything atached to the earth and premises;
"noxious plant" means any plant which His Majes-ty in Council by notification in the Gazette declares to be a noxious plant for the purposes of this Act and includes the seed and every part of such plant;
"occupier" includes a lessee or tenant and a culti-vator or person in actual possession, management orcontrolofanyland;

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Cap. 36
Appointment of inspecting officers
Delegating powers

LAWS 01' BRUNEI
Agricultural Pests and Noxious Plants
"officer of Customs" shall have the same meaning as in the Customs Act;
"owner" means the registered proprietor of any land;
"pest" includes any insect, invertebrate animal, rodent, vermin, fungus, parasite, bacteria, virus or disease, destructive or injurious, directly or in-directly, to any plant and includes the eggs of any pest;
"plant" means any species of vegetable and any part of a plant whether living or dead and includes the stem, root, leaf, flower, fruit or any part or product whatsoever of any plant whether severed or attached;
"quarantining" means isolating any land and pre-mises for the purposes of this Act or of any rules made thereunder so that there shall be no com-munication or traffic with any other land and pre-mises except in accordance with this Act or any rules made thereunder;

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s 1Commencement: 1st August 1971 s.t37171

This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Pests and Short title

Noxious Plants Act.

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3 2.

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires -

Interpretation

"dangerous pest" means any pest which His

Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Coun-cil by notification in the Gazette declares to be a dangerous pest for the purposes of this Act;

"disease" means attacked by or infected or affected with any pest;

"inspecting officer" means any inspecting officer appointed under section 3 and includes the Direc-tor of Agriculture;

"land" includes things attached to the earth or per-manently fastened to anything atached to the earth and premises;

"noxious plant" means any plant which His Majes-ty in Council by notification in the Gazette declares to be a noxious plant for the purposes of this Act and includes the seed and every part of such plant;

"occupier" includes a lessee or tenant and a culti-vator or person in actual possession, management orcontrolofanyland;

Cap. 36

Appointment of inspecting officers

Delegating powers

LAWS 01' BRUNEI

Agricultural Pests and Noxious Plants

"officer of Customs" shall have the same meaning as in the Customs Act;

"owner" means the registered proprietor of any land;

"pest" includes any insect, invertebrate animal, rodent, vermin, fungus, parasite, bacteria, virus or disease, destructive or injurious, directly or in-directly, to any plant and includes the eggs of any pest;

"plant" means any species of vegetable and any part of a plant whether living or dead and includes the stem, root, leaf, flower, fruit or any part or product whatsoever of any plant whether severed or attached;

"quarantining" means isolating any land and pre-mises for the purposes of this Act or of any rules made thereunder so that there shall be no com-munication or traffic with any other land and pre-mises except in accordance with this Act or any rules made thereunder;