Section 18

Any person who wilfully drives or abets the driving of locusts in the stage in which they are known as hoppers off land owned or occupied by any person on to other land owned or occupied by a different person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that growing crops on the land off which the locusts were driven were in danger from them, and that in driving them off that land he used his utmost endeavours to destroy them and did not drive them towards the growing crop of any other person.