New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 13

13 Director-General to keep register of beekeepers

(1) The Director-General is to keep a register of beekeepers for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The register is to be kept in such form as the Director-General considers appropriate.

(3) The Director-General shall cause to be entered in the register:

(a) the name of each person registered as a beekeeper and the registration number allocated to that person,

(b) where the registered person is a corporation, the names of the directors, the secretary or secretaries and the principal executive officer of the corporation,

(c) the date on which the person first became registered and, where the registration of a person is renewed under section 11, each date of renewal,

(d) where the registered person does not carry on a business of beekeeping, the address of the place at which the person ordinarily resides,

(e) where the person does carry on a business of beekeeping, the address of the place or places at which the business is carried on and, if the person is a corporation, the address of the registered office, or, if that office is located outside New South Wales, the principal place of business of the corporation in New South Wales,

(f) such other particulars as may be prescribed for the purposes of this subsection, and

(g) any material change in the particulars recorded in the register.

(4) Where the registration of a person expires under section 8 or 11 or is cancelled under section 12, the Director-General shall make an entry to that effect in the appropriate place in the register.

(5) A person is entitled to inspect the register and make copies of, or make notes in respect of, any entry in the register and is, on payment of the prescribed fee, entitled to be provided with a copy of the register or of any such entry.

(6) Subsection (5) does not apply where the register is kept in a computer data base, but if the register is so kept, a person is, on payment of the prescribed fee, entitled to a copy of a computer print-out of the register or of any entry in the register.

(7) In any legal proceedings, a copy of an entry in the register, purporting to be certified by the Director-General as a true copy of the entry, shall be admissible in evidence and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, shall be evidence of the contents of the entry.

(8) The requirement under subsections (5) and (6) for payment of a prescribed fee does not apply if the person inspecting the register and obtaining the relevant copy is an authorised officer who is doing so in the person’s capacity as such an officer.

(9) In this section, "authorised officer" means any of the following:

(a) an inspector,

(b) a police officer,

(c) an employee of a local council,

(d) any other person of a class approved by the Director-General for the purposes of this definition.