New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 27

27 Establishment of quarantine areas

(1) The Minister may from time to time, by notice published in the Gazette:

(a) declare any specified Crown land in New South Wales to be a quarantine area for the detention of quarantined bees, beehives, apiary products and appliances, and

(b) subject to subsection (2), declare any specified land adjacent to a quarantine area to be a prohibited zone in which bees may not be kept,

and may, in a similar manner, vary, redefine or abolish any such quarantine area or prohibited zone.

(2) Land may not be declared to be part of a prohibited zone under subsection (1) if it is situated more than 5 kilometres from the boundary of a quarantine area.

(3) The Minister may from time to time give directions with respect to the control of quarantine areas or any specified quarantine area and with respect to the control, treatment and disposal of bees, beehives, apiary products and appliances kept in quarantine, and may specify the time during which bees, beehives, apiary products or appliances introduced or intended to be introduced into New South Wales shall remain in quarantine.

(4) A person (other than the Minister, the Director-General or an inspector) shall not enter a quarantine area declared in accordance with subsection (1) without the authority of the Minister, the Director-General or an inspector.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(5) A person shall not keep bees within a prohibited zone declared in accordance with subsection (1).

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.