Section 6

If on or as a result of any inspection or examination of land and premises or plants by an inspecting officer it appears to the officer that any plant is diseased, the officer may, by notice in writing under his hand, addressed to the owner or occupier of the land and premises whereon the plant is, direct him to take within a time to be stated in the notice such measures as may appear to the inspecting officer necessary or expedient for the eradication or the prevention of the spread of any pest either by destruction or by treatment in a manner to be specified in the notice of that or any plant or of any pest or of any tools or utensils used for agricultural or industrial purposes on the land and premises. Such treatment may include the cessation of obtaining or abstracting any produce from any plants on the land and premises.

If on or as a result of any inspection or examination of land and premises or plants by an inspecting officer it appears to the officer that any land and premises or plant is in a condition favourable to the introduction or spread of any pest, the officer may, by notice in writing under his hand addressed to the owner or occupier of the land and premises whereon that condition exists, direct him to take within a time to be stated in the notice such measures as are in the notice specified for the treatment of the land and premises or plant or of any tools or utensils used for agricultural or industrial purposes on the land and premises with a view to bringing them into a condition not favourable to the introduction or spread of any pest.