New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 29

29 Persons to whom compensation is payable

(1) Where compensation is payable under this Part, that compensation shall:

(a) where there is only one owner of the queen bees, beehives or appliances in respect of which the compensation is payable-be paid to that owner, or

(b) where there is more than one owner of the queen bees, beehives or appliances-be paid to those owners jointly.

(2) In subsection (1), a reference to the owner in relation to:

(a) queen bees that have been destroyed, or

(b) beehives or appliances that have been destroyed or irradiated,

is a reference to a person who has, or a partnership which had, an interest in the bees at the time of their destruction or of the direction to destroy them or in those beehives or appliances at the time of their destruction or irradiation or of the direction to destroy or irradiate them, but does not include a reference to the holder of a mortgage, charge or lien over those bees, beehives or appliances who did not have possession of them at that time.