New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 14

14 Bees to be kept in frame hives

(1) A person shall not keep bees, or allow bees to be kept in an apiary, except in a frame hive.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(2) Where an inspector finds that the bee combs in the broodnest of a beehive containing frames cannot, without cutting, be separately removed from the hive for examination, the inspector may direct the beekeeper to transfer the bees in the hive to a frame hive within a specified period, and the beekeeper shall comply with the direction within that period.

(3) Where bees are kept or have become established in a hive other than a frame hive, an inspector may:

(a) direct the beekeeper to transfer to a frame hive within a specified period the bees, honey and bee combs contained in the first-mentioned hive, or

(b) destroy the hive in which the bees are kept or have become established and the bees, apiary products and appliances on or within that hive.

(4) If any person fails within the specified period to carry out any directions given by an inspector under subsection (2) or (3) in relation to a beehive, the inspector or a person authorised by the inspector in writing, may enter on the land in which the hive is located and may destroy the hive, and the bees, apiary products and appliances on or within the hive.

(5) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to carry out directions given by an inspector under subsection (2) or (3) within the specified period is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units.