New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 6

6 Unregistered persons not to keep bees

(1) A person shall not, either alone or in partnership with another person or through an employee or agent, keep bees or act as or carry on the business of a beekeeper unless the first-mentioned person is registered as a beekeeper.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) A person shall not carry on a business of keeping bees in partnership with another person who, to the knowledge of the first-mentioned person, is not registered.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) The fact that a member of a partnership established for the purpose of carrying on a business of keeping bees is not registered is a sufficient ground for dissolving the partnership.

(4) Where a registered beekeeper has died, the executor or administrator of the estate of the beekeeper may continue to keep the bees belonging to that estate for a period not exceeding 6 months after that beekeeper’s death, and during that period:

(a) subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply to or in respect of that executor or administrator, and

(b) the provisions of this Act, other than subsections (1) and (2), shall apply to and in respect of that executor or administrator as if that executor or administrator were registered as a beekeeper,

in relation to the keeping of those bees.

(5) Subsection (4) has effect notwithstanding that probate has not been granted to the executor or, as the case may be, letters of administration have not been granted to the administrator at any relevant time.

(6) The regulations may, unconditionally or subject to conditions, exempt any person or class of persons from the requirement under this section to be registered as a beekeeper.