Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1929

Extension of powers of Department.

3.—An order made by the Department under the Principal Act as amended by the Act of 1907 may:—

(a) empower any inspector authorised in that behalf by the Department to do all or any of the following things, that is to say, to remove or destroy, or cause to be removed or destroyed, any crop infected with an insect introduced into Saorstát Eireann and specified in such order, or any crop to or by means of which such insect is likely to spread, and generally to take such steps as he may think expedient in connection with any crop for preventing the spreading of any such insect, and to enter on any land for any of the purposes aforesaid or for any examination or enquiry authorised by such order or for any other purpose of such order;

(b) impose, in respect of any certificate given in pursuance of such order after an inspection, such fee or other charge as the Department, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may prescribe;

(c) impose (in lieu of the penalties authorised by the Principal Act) penalties for offences against such order not exceeding, in the case of a first offence, a fine of ten pounds or, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence, a fine of twenty pounds.