New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 50

50 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), a regulation under that subsection may be made for or with respect to:

(a) prescribing functions of inspectors,

(b) providing for the registration of persons as beekeepers and, in particular, providing for the replacement of certificates of registration that have accidentally been lost or destroyed,

(c) prescribing the obligations of beekeepers with respect to the functions of inspectors,

(d) prescribing or providing for the form of notices and other documents required or authorised for the purposes of this Act,

(e) prescribing the fees (if any) that are payable under this Act,

(f) regulating the construction of beehives and the display of registration numbers on beehives,

(g) controlling diseases of bees and prescribing the manner in which bees, beehives, apiary products or appliances are to be treated or disposed of in a case where they are infected by a notifiable or prescribed disease or are liable to spread a prescribed disease,

(h) prohibiting or regulating the sending, carriage or movement into, within or from New South Wales of bees, beehives, apiary products or appliances which are infected or are suspected to be infected with a notifiable or prescribed disease,

(i) regulating the carriage within New South Wales of bees and beehives,

(j) regulating the manufacture, packing, labelling and sale of queen candy as food for bees,

(k) prohibiting bees, beehives, apiary products or appliances from being imported or brought into New South Wales at places other than specified places of entry,

(l) providing for the grading and packing of apiary products and the branding or labelling of packages containing apiary products and for prohibiting the sale of those products unless the prescribed conditions are fulfilled, and

(m) prescribing the method of valuing queen bees for the purpose of determining the amount of compensation that is payable under Part 5 to an owner of queen bees that have been destroyed.

(3) A regulation under this section may provide for a contravention of or failure to comply with a provision of a regulation to be an offence and for the imposition of a penalty not exceeding 5 penalty units in respect of such an offence.

(4) A provision of a regulation may:

(a) apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified exceptions or factors,

(b) apply differently according to different factors of a specified kind, or

(c) authorise any matter or thing to be determined, applied or regulated from time to time by any specified person or body,

or may do any combination of those things.