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(1) On receipt of iriformation under section 3 or on tlw detection of any silkworm disease after inspection under section 4, the Sericultural Expert or any officer authorized by him in this behalf, or the officer making such inspection, may .take or cause to be taken such measures as he may consider neces- sary or expedient to prevent the spread of the disease or to eradicate it, being measures referred to in sub- section (2). This word was substitt~ted for the word "thereof" by section 4 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (Tamil Nadu Act XXV of 1957) ; so far as tho added territories are concerned the above amendment was made by seuipn of, and the Second hhedule to, the Tamil Nadu (Added Tantonos) Extonsion of Laws Act, 1964 (Tap11 Nadu : Aot 8 of 1964). +#, f 948 : T.N. Act 111 Silkworm Diseases (P~.evention and Eradication) (2) Such measures may consist of- (b) the prohibition for a specified period of the rearing by seedrearcrs of any species of silkworm in which a silkworlll disease has broken out in a virulent form ; (c) any other action which 111ay be prescri- bed. (3) At least twenty-foar hours' notice shall be given to the owner or otl~er pessnn j~~-charge of any object or article which it is intended to destroy under this section. *