(1) The competent authority or any person not below the rank of an 1[Horticulture Development Officer], authorised by it in this behalf may, at all reasonable hours and with or without assistants, enter any fruit nursery and inspect or examine the fruit plants therein, and the registers, books of accounts and records relating thereto, for the purpose of satisfying itself or himself that the requirements of this Act and the rules thereunder are being complied with.
(2) The licensee shall afford the competent authority or the person authorised by it all reasonable access and facilities for such inspection and examination as may be required for the purpose aforesaid and shall be bound to furnish such information relating to the 2[horticulture] nursery as may be required by such authority or person.
12. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, prohibit or regulate, subject to such restrictions and conditions as it may impose, the bringing into, or taking out of the State, otherwise than across a customs frontier as defined by the Central Government, or the transport within the State, of any fruit plant of unknown pedigree or affected by any infectious or contagious disease or pest.3[Nobody can bring horticulture plants from outside the state without obtaining the Phytosanitary Certificate issued by the designated authority of the State of Punjab as notified by the Plant Protection Adviser to Government of India, Directorate of Plant Protection Quarantine and Storage, Faridabad.]