Queensland Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1982

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Definitions

           Part 2--Administration

   3.      Inspectors
   4.      Appointment of honorary inspector
   5.      Powers of inspector

           Part 3--Regulation and control of the keeping of bees

   6.      Exclusion of parts of the State from part
   7.      Registration of beekeepers
   8.      Permit pending determination of application for registration etc.
   9.      Permit required for bringing bees etc. into Queensland
   10.     Registration etc. may be cancelled
   11.     Classification of apiaries
   12.     Distances between apiary sites
   13.     Powers of the chief executive
   14.     Notice to be given of the establishment or removal of an apiary
   15.     Prohibited apiary sites
   16.     Notice to be given of sale of apiary
   17.     Marking of hives
   18.     Power to restrict entry of races or strains of bees into any part of the State
   19.     Bees to be kept in frame hive
   20.     Inspector may order replacement of hive
   21.     Power of inspector upon failure to comply with order
   22.     Abandoned bees

           Part 4--Prevention, control and restriction of diseases affecting bees

   23.     Beekeeper shall notify disease
   24.     Provision as to disease
   25.     Power of inspector to order hives etc. to be treated
   26.     Power of chief executive to order destruction of bees
   27.     Restriction of introduction into Queensland of bees etc.
   28.     Prohibition of the importation of bees
   29.     Quarantine

           Part 5--General

   30.     Obstruction
   31.     Offence by owner or occupier of premises etc.
   32.     No inspector shall be liable for damage in carrying out the provisions of this Act
   33.     Protection of Crown, Minister and officers
   34.     Limit of right to compensation
   35.     Recovery of costs, charges and expenses
   36.     Offences
   37.     Service of notice
   38.     Court may proceed ex parte
   39.     Evidence
   40.     Proof of order
   41.     Certificates by chief executive
   42.     Delegations by Minister and chief executive
   43.     Approval of forms
   44.     Regulation making power
           Endnotes