(1) The competent authority or any officer authorised by him or the State Government may enter into the premises of a horticultural nursery and inspect or examine the plant material or the books of accounts, registers, records or other documents relating to the horticultural nursery at all reasonable hours, for the purpose of satisfying himself that the requirement of this Act and the rules made thereunder are being complied with.
(2) Every nurseryman or his agent and every person employed in connection with a horticultural nursery shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), afford all reasonable access and facilities as may be required by the competent authority or the officer authorised by him or the State Government, as the case may be, and shall furnish all information, books of accounts, registers, records and other documents relating to such 284 The West Bengal Horticultural Nurseries (Regulation) Act, 2001.
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horticultural nursery as may be required by the competent authority or the officer authorised by him or the State Government, as the case may be.
(3) If the competent authority or the officer authorised by him or the State Government is of the opinion that the use of any plant material or its mother tree or both may not be in the interest of the horticultural industry on account of—
(a) poor quality of fruits or plants, or
(b) poor fruit-bearing capacity, or
(c) infestation of insects, pests and diseases of incurable nature, or
(d) such other reason as he may consider appropriate, he may declare such plant material and, if necessary, its mother tree as unfit for use, and may direct the nurseryman in writing to remove and destroy such plant material and mother tree within the prescribed period.
(4) The nurseryman shall, on receipt of such direction, remove or destroy such plant material and mother tree within the prescribed period, failing which, the competent authority or, as the case may be, the officer authorised by him or the State Government, as the case may be, shall cause the same to be removed and destroyed and the expenditure incurred therefor shall be recovered from the nurseryman as an arrear of land revenue.