Conservation and Land Management Regulations 2002

In this regulation —

The following conditions apply to every apiary authority —

the apiarist must immediately report any outbreak of fire on or near the apiary site to the local departmental office;

the apiarist must cooperate with the Department and any other authority or person lawfully carrying out fire prevention or control activities on or near the apiary site;

the apiarist must ensure that there is adequate water on the apiary site for all apiary requirements;

before placing hives on the apiary site the apiarist must give notice to —

the local departmental office; and

if the site is on a pastoral lease, diversification lease or mining tenement — the employee or agent of the lessee under the pastoral lease or diversification lease, or of the tenement holder, who is responsible for the day‑to‑day management of the area of the lease or tenement where the site is located;

the apiarist must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the apiarist’s activities do not infect the site with, or spread, a forest disease;

the apiarist must comply with the following written laws —

Conservation and Land Management Act 1984;

Bush Fires Act 1954;

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911;

any written law relating to protection of water catchments or regulation of water supplies.

A notice for the purposes of subregulation (2)(d) must include the following information —

the proposed location of the hives;

the number of hives proposed to be placed on the site;

how long it is proposed the hives will remain on the site;

the names of the people who are expected to be entering the site for apiary purposes.