Australian Capital Territory

Animal Diseases (Bees) Regulations 2000
Subordinate Law 2000 No 3

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following regulations under the Animal Diseases Act 1993.
	Dated 21 February 2000.
brendan smyth
Minister
gary humphries
Minister

1 	Name of regulations
	These regulations are the Animal Diseases (Bees) Regulations 2000.
2 	Commencement
	These regulations commence on the commencement of the Animal Diseases (Amendment) Act 1999.
3 	Definitions
	In these regulations, the following definitions apply unless the contrary intention appears:
broodbox means the bottom box of an active beehive.
frame hive means a beehive that—
	(a)	contains only moveable frames that are capable of being readily and separately removed for examination; or
	(b)	contains—
	(i)	fixed frames in all honey super-boxes of the beehive; and
	(ii)	only moveable frames, that are capable of being readily and separately removed for examination, in the broodbox of the beehive; and
	(iii)	a device fitted immediately above the broodbox of the beehive that excludes the queen bee from all honey super-boxes of the beehive.
honey super-box means an upper box of a beehive in which honey is stored.
4 	Honeybees to be kept in frame hives
	A person must not keep honeybees other than in a frame hive.
Maximum penalty:  10 penalty units.
5 	Honey not to be exposed
	A person must not expose honey or honeycomb, other than in a frame hive, in a way that honeybees may have access to it.
Maximum penalty:  10 penalty units.

Endnotes
Notification
1	Notified in the Gazette on 2 March 2000.
Penalty units
2	Section 33AA of the Interpretation Act 1967 (as applied by section 9 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989) deals with the meaning of offence penalties that are expressed in penalty units.

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