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Whenever it appears to the 2[Central Government] . Power to _declare that any °[insect, Vertebrate or invertebrate animal], dis- jech vertebrate or ease or weed is injurious to plants in any local area and plan dues o that it 15 necessary to take measures to eradicate such 0N weeds and Sfinsect, vertebrate or invertebrate animal], disease or cradiate ot provent weed, or to prevent its introduction, spread’or reappear- "™ ance, the ?[Central Government], may, by notification in the Official Gazette— 4[(i) declare such insect, vertebrate or invertebrate animal to be a pest or such disease or weed to be a plant disease or noxious weed, respectively;] ‘ (ii) specify the local area within which and the period during which such declaration shall re- main in force; (iii) prohibit or restrict the movement or removal of any plant, earth, soil, manure or other thing from one place to another ; (iv) direct the carrying out of such preventive or remedial measures, including the destruction of any [pest], plant disease or noxious weed or any plants as the ?[Central Government] may deem necessary, in order to eradicate such pest, disease or weed or to prevent its introduction, spread or reappearance; and (v) prescribe_the period within which it shall not be lawful to plant with a specified crop the whole or any portion of the notified area.