This Act shall have effect for the control of pests and diseases injurious to agricultural or horticultural crops, or to trees or bushes. The Act designates the competent authorities for purposes of this Act and gives certain powers to those competent authorities for the control of introduction of pests into Great Britain. A competent authority may from time to time make such orders as the authority thinks expedient or called for by any obligation for preventing the spread of pests in Great Britain or the conveyance of pests by articles exported from Great Britain. The orders may prohibit the selling or exposing or offering for sale, or the keeping, of living specimens of a pest, or the distribution in any manner of such specimens. Orders under this Act may enable inspectors authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or, in Scotland, the Secretary of State to undertake specified measures to prevent or combat pests. A competent authority may require a local authority to carry into effect any order under this Act, and may, with the consent of the local authority, require a local authority to pay compensation in respect of any crop, or any seed, plant or part thereof, which is removed or destroyed in pursuance of any such order.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 1967-03-22