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 4A: Power of Central Government to regulate or prohibit transport from State to State
    1[4A. Power of Central Government to regulate or prohibit transport from State to State of insects or articles likely to infect.--The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit or regulate, subject to such conditions as the Central Government may impose, the export from a State or the transport from one State to another State 2*** of any article or class of articles likely to cause infection to any crop or of insects generally or any class of insects.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 6 of 1938, s. 5.
2. The words "in British India" rep. by the A.O. 1948.
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