1996ED] Notification of infcctcd PLANT PROTECTION ACT [CAP 171 A 8.(1) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare any place in Seychelles to be mfected or suspected of bemg infected with a quarantine pest to be an infected area. (2) A notice under subsection (I) may, for the purposes of containing the spread of the quarantine pest - (a) prescri he the me.sures for the treatment or ni'po •• 1 or both treatment and disposal of a plant material, soil or associated packaging, whether infected or not, found in thc infcctcd arca or of a convcyance which has or suspected to have come into contact with the quarantine pest or a plant material soil or associated packaging which has been affected or suspected of having been affected by a quarantine pest; (b) prohibit, restrict or otherwise specify measures for controlling the removal of a quarantine pest or a plant material, soil or aSSIlcialt;u packaging from an infected area; (c) provide that. within a period specified in the Notice, any plant specified in the notice or propagative material of that plant, shall not be planted in an infeotcd nrca or place which was declared an infected area. Measures of quarantine 9. (1) Where the Minister has published a notice under section 7 and the Director is satisfied on reasonable ground that there is a quarantine pest affecting a plant on or the soil of any land, the Director, may, by notice served on the owner or occupier of the land and any adjoining land, order the owner or occupier or both owner and occupier of the land to perform, within the time specified in the notice, such treatment and carry out such measures on the land or adJommg land or in respect of any plant, whether it is infested or not by a quarantine pest, for tbe purpose of eliminating, containing or preventing the spread of a quarantine pest. (2) Where under subsection (I) the Director does not know the Identity of the owner or occupier of any land or the land is otherwise not occupied by any person, the Director may affix the notice in a conspicuous place on the land and the notice shall be deemed to have 6