New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 5

5 Inspectors

(1) The Director-General may appoint as inspectors such officers of the Public Service who are employed in a Government Department of which the Director-General is the Department Head as the Director-General considers necessary for the proper administration and enforcement of this Act.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Director-General may, by notification published in the Gazette, appoint one or more persons as temporary inspectors for the purposes of this Act.

(3) The Director-General is, by virtue of his or her office, an inspector for the purposes of this Act.

(4) The Director-General shall issue to each inspector a certificate of the inspector’s authority under this Act.

(5) A certificate of authority issued to an inspector under subsection (4) shall either:

(a) specify that the inspector has all the functions of an inspector under this Act, or

(b) specify which of those functions shall be exercised and which of those powers may be exercised by the inspector.

(6) Where in any place an inspector is about to exercise, or is in the course of exercising, a function imposed or conferred on the inspector by this Act and a person apparently in charge of the place, or of any activity carried on there, requests the inspector to produce the inspector’s certificate of authority as such, it is not lawful for the inspector to exercise or, as the case may be, to continue to exercise that function unless the inspector produces that certificate to that person.

(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, an inspector does not have authority under this Act to enter a dwelling-house or other residential premises without the consent of the occupier unless the business of a corporation or an activity connected with beekeeping is carried on in that house or those premises, as the case may be.