Biosecurity Act 2014

If the chief executive registers a registrable biosecurity entity under this part for the entity’s keeping of bees, the chief executive must allocate a hive identification number (a HIN) to the entity for the entity’s hives.

The chief executive must take any action the chief executive considers appropriate, including by cancelling or replacing a HIN and amending the biosecurity register accordingly, to ensure to the greatest practicable extent that a registered biosecurity entity has only 1 HIN that is unique to the entity’s hives.

If the chief executive takes any action under subsection (2) that affects the registration details of a registered biosecurity entity, the chief executive must give the entity an information notice for the decision to take the action.

A HIN may take any form the chief executive considers appropriate.

A registered biosecurity entity that has a HIN allocated to it by the chief executive must ensure that the hives the entity uses for the keeping of bees are marked or branded with the HIN, in the way prescribed under a regulation, to the following extent—

for each group of 50 hives—at least 1 hive in the group must be marked or branded;

subject to paragraph (a), for any group of less than 50 hives—at least 1 hive in the group must be marked or branded.