Destructive Insects and Pests Act, 1914 Section 4B - Bare Act

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¹[4B. Refusal to carry article of which transport is prohibited.-

When a notification has been issued under Section4A, then, notwithstanding any other law for the time being in force, the person responsible for the booking of goods or parcels at any railway station or inland steam vessel station,-

(a) where the notification prohibits export or transport, shall refuse to receive for carriage at, or to forward or knowingly allow to be carried on, the railway or inland steam vessel from that station anything, of which import or transport is prohibited, consigned to any place²[in a³[State] other than the³[State]] in which such station is situate; and

(b) where the noification imposes conditions upon export or transport, shall so refuse, unless the consignor produces, or the thing consigned is accompanied by, a document or documents or the prescribed nature showing that those conditions are satisfied.]

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1. Inserted by the Destructive Insects and Pests (Amendment) Act, 1938 (6 of 1938),Section 5 w.e.f. 12-3-1938.

2. Substituted by A.C.A.O., 1948.

3. Sustituted for 'Province' by A L.O., 1950.