Plant Disease and Control Act 1953 (Cap. 220).

The Act consists of 28 sections divided into 7 Parts: Preliminary (I); Inspectors (II); Plant diseases and pests (III); Noxious plants (IV); Restricted plants (V); Legal proceedings, etc. (VI); Miscellaneous (VII).
The Minister may, under section 2, appoint an officer to be the Chief Inspector of Plants for the purposes of this Act, and the Chief Inspector of Plants may Inspectors of Plants and temporary Inspectors of Plants under section 3. General powers of Inspectors are defined in section 4. Section 5 defines the application sphere of Part II. This Part provides for notification of pests, destruction of plants to prevent spread of disease, the declaration of disease areas by the Minister, the declaration of a host plant of the disease or pest in a disease are, etc. The Minister may, under section 10 of Part IV declare a plant to be a noxious plant for the purposes of this Act, in relation to the whole of the country or a part of the country. Presence of a notifiable noxious plant shall be notified by the owner or occupier of land and the Inspector may require an owner of an occupier of land to destroy notifiable noxious plants and to keep the land free of them (sects. 11 and 12). The Minister may, under section 16 of Part V, declare that the introduction of a plant into, or the removal of a plant from, a part of the country is prohibited absolutely or subject to such restrictions and conditions as are specified in the notice and prohibit the growing of certain plants under section 17. Remaining provisions concern legal proceedings, powers of inspectors and regulation making powers of the Head of State.