New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985

- As at 17 June 2009
- Act 16 of 1985

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions

   PART 2 - ADMINISTRATION

   4.      (Repealed)
   5.      Inspectors

   PART 3 - REGISTRATION OF BEEKEEPERS

   6.      Unregistered person not to keep bees
   7.      Application for registration
   8.      Grant or refusal of application for registration
   9.      Registration may be subject to conditions etc
   10.     Particular duties of a registered beekeeper
   11.     Renewal of registration
   12.     Cancellation of registration
   13.     Director-General to keep register of beekeepers

   PART 4 - REGULATION OF BEEKEEPING ACTIVITIES

           Division 1 - General regulatory requirements

   14.     Bees to be kept in frame hives
   15.     Beehives to be identified
   15A.    Forfeiture of beehives in certain cases
   16.     Access to beehives to be kept clear
   17.     Abandoned or neglected bees or associated things
   18.     Power of Director-General to restrict beekeeping on certain premises
   18A.    Power of inspectors to relocate beehives in emergency
   19.     Power to prohibit the keeping of bees in specified areas
   20.     Honey not to be exposed

           Division 2 - Disease control

   21.     Infected bees etc not to be kept or sold
   22.     Beekeepers to notify disease
   23.     Declaration of infected areas
   24.     Powers of inspectors with respect to infected bees etc
   24A.    Power to order tests
   25.     Restriction on introduction of bees into New South Wales
   26.     Prohibition of importation of bees etc
   27.     Establishment of quarantine areas

   PART 5 - COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OF BEES ETC

   28.     Payment of compensation
   29.     Persons to whom compensation is payable
   30.     Claims
   31.     Basis of compensation
   32.     Compensation limited
   32A.    Determination of compensation
   33.     Compensation payable under this Part to be a fixed charge on the Consolidated Fund
   34.     Offences under Part 5

   PART 6 - REVIEWS BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS TRIBUNAL

   35.     Applications for review
           36, 37. (Repealed)

   PART 7 - ENFORCEMENT

   38.     General powers of inspection
   38A.    Inspector may request assistance
   39.     Power to require name and place of residence and location of beehives
   40.     Assault etc of inspector
   41.     Personation of inspector
   42.     General provisions with respect to offences
   42A.    Penalty notices
   43.     Offences by officers of corporations
   44.     Evidentiary provisions
   45.     Injunctions
   46.     Recovery of expenses

   PART 8 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

   46A.    Exclusion of personal liability
   47.     Service of documents
   47A.    Delegation
   48.     Certain orders to be published in Gazette
   49.     (Repealed)
   50.     Regulations
   51.     Amendment of Schedules 1, 2 and 3
   52.     Repeals
   53.     Savings and transitional provisions
   54.     Description of land in documents under this Act
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5