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Agricultural Pests and Noxious Plants Act · 1984 Revised Edition
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Where any plants have been destroyed in pur-suance of an order, or as a result of any action taken under section 13, His Majesty in Council may, in his discretion, direct the payment to such persons as he may specify of such sum as he considers reasonable as compensation.
No application for compensation shall be enter-tained unless it is in writing and is received in the office of the Director of Agriculture within 3 months from the date of the order requiring-'the destruction of such plant.
Subject to this section no owner or occupier of land nor any other person be entitled to compensation for any expense incurred or damage occasioned by any notice or order given or act done in pursuance of this Act or any rules made thereunder unless such damage was occasioned by negligence or maliciously, and without reasonable cause.