Act Number: 2

Act Name: The Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914

Year: 1914

Enactment Date: 1914-02-03

Long Title: An act to prevent the introduction into India and the transport from one State to another of any insect, fungus or other pest, which is or may be destructive to crops.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare

Section 4B: Refusal to carry article of which transport is prohibited.
    1[. Refusal to carry article of which transport is prohibited--When a notification has been issued under section 4A, then, notwithstanding any other law for the time being in force, the person responsible for the booking of goods or parcels at any railway station or inland steam vessel station,--
         (a) where the notification prohibits export or transport, shall refuse to receive for carriage at, or to forward or knowingly allow to be carried on, the railway or inland steam vessel from that station anything, of which import or transport is prohibited, consigned to any place in a State other than the State in which such station is situate; and
         (b) where the notification imposes conditions upon export or transport shall so refuse, unless the consignor produces, or the thing consigned is accompanied by, a document or documents of the prescribed nature showing that those conditions are satisfied.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 6 of 1938, s. 5.
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