New South Wales Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1985 - SECT 7

7 Application for registration

(1) Any person may make an application to the Director-General for registration under this Act as a beekeeper.

(2) An application for registration:

(a) must be in an approved form, and

(b) must be lodged with the Director-General, and

(c) must be accompanied by the prescribed registration fee.

(3) The Director-General may require an applicant to provide the Director-General with such further information as the Director-General considers necessary in relation to the application and, where the Director-General requires any such information, the Director-General may decline to deal with the application further unless that information is provided in accordance with the requirement.

(4) If an applicant:

(a) in an application under this section, provides information that is, to the knowledge of the applicant, false or misleading in a material respect, or

(b) omits to provide information in such an application which, to the knowledge of the applicant, thereby renders the application misleading in a material respect,

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