Occupier responsibility

(1) Every owner or occupier and every person having charge or management of land who knows or suspects the existence of any notifiable plant pest or quarantine pest on such land shall promptly give notice to the Authority of that fact and of all such information as may be available to such owner, occupier or person as to the extent and nature of the pest. (2) Every person having in his possession or under his charge any diseased plant shall, (a) keep such plant material separate from plants not so diseased; and (b) within twenty-four hours, give notice of the fact of the plant being so diseased to the nearest office of the Authority or the person in charge of the nearest police station.