New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 39

39 Power to require name and place of residence and location of beehives

(1) Where an inspector finds a person committing an offence against this Act or finds a person who the inspector suspects on reasonable grounds has committed or attempted to commit such an offence, the inspector may require that person to state that person’s name and the address of that person’s place of residence and to specify the locations of all apiaries in which bees are kept by or on behalf of that person.

(2) Any person who:

(a) fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1), or

(b) states a name by which that person is not ordinarily known or states an address at which that person is not residing,

is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.