Beekeepers Amendment Regulations 1995 (WA)

3 March 19951 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 767

AGRICULTURE

AG301

BEEKEEPERS ACT 1963
BEEKEEPERS AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1995

Made by The Lieutenant-Governor and Deputy of the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Beekeepers Amendment

Regulations 1995.

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Beekeepers Regulations 1963* are referred to as

the principal regulations.

[4̀ Published in the Gazette of 16 December 1963 at pp. 3897-3906.

For amendments to 8 February 1995 see 1993 index to Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, pp. 21-22, and Gazette of 24 June 1994.1

the Director General of Agriculture.

Regulation 16 amended

3. Regulation 16 of the principal regulations is amended —

(a) in subregulation (1) by inserting after "bees", in both places where it occurs, the following —

, honey

and

(b) by inserting after subregulation (2) the following subregulations —

Subregulation (1) does not apply to honey

introduced into the State in a quantity not exceeding
1 kg for scientific or analytical purposes.

(3)

(4) This regulation does not prevent honey being

treated at temperature and time regimes approved by

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Regulation 16A repealed

4. Regulation 16A of the principal regulations is repealed.

Second Schedule amended

5. The Second Schedule to the principal regulations is amended by deleting

Form 5 and Form 5A and substituting the following form "•-

4S

Form No. 5

(Regulation 161

Western Australia

Beekeepers Act 1963

HEALTH CERTIFICATE FOR THE INTERSTATE

MOVEMENT OF APIARY PRODUCTS, BEE COLONIES USED EQUIPMENT, QUEEN BEES, ESCORTS, QUEEN

CELLS AND PACKAGE BEES

(full name of owner/agent/person in charge*)

Phone of

(postal address) (post code)

Statefferritory*

hereby declare that:

*1) Ii)ropose to introduce (kg/number*)

of honey/honeycomb/beeswax/pollen/bee	colonies/used hive
equipment, branded
/used equicrent/ueen bees/queen	cells/packages/or other
apiary pro ucts (p ease specify*) into (State/Territory*) on (Date) Addressed to: (Name) Address	Postcode

*2) The honey/honeycomb/beeswax/pollen/bee colonies/used hive equipment/queen bees/queen cells/packages/or other apiary products* described herein were derived from apiaries which are free of American foul brood (Bacillus larvae) and are not showing field symptoms of any other disease of bees.

The bee colonies are not in quarantine and are not from a declared quarantine area or declared prohibited zone.

Pollen used for feedback to bees has been sufficiently

irradiated to a minimum of 15 kilo Gray prior to	distribution to beekeepers.
For importation into Western Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory the State/Territory* from which the bees, honey bee products or equipment originates is free of European foul brood (Melissococcus pluton) (not Tasmania)
and chalkbrood disease (Ascosphaera apis) OR:

The honey/or other apiary products* described herein have been pasteurised by heating to a temperature of 65° Celsius for not less than 8 hours or 70° Celsius for 2 hours (not Northern Territory).

*ii)	Honey used in queen candy, pollen or food for
package bees containing bee products has been irradiated at a minimum of 15 kilo Gray to inactivate all infectious agents.
*iii)	The beeswax described herein has been refined by
heat treatment to melting point at premises approved by the senior apicultural officer (W A only).

* Delete section or parts, that do NOT apply. -

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*iv)	The equipment described herein is free from honey,
beeswax, propolis, hive material and contamination with honey bee diseases and, in the case of beehives, have not previously been used for keeping bees (W A only).

*v) The queen bee and not more than 6 escorts must be derived from an apiary free of chalkbrood, American and European foul brood for the previous 12 months (Northern Territory only).

*6)	For movement out of Tasmania, the bees/honeycomb/used hive equipment* are accompanied by a written approval under !Quarantine Proclamation No. 114A from the Director of Quarantine or authorised delegate.
Signed	Date

CERTIFICATE BY GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR OR

OTHER AUTHORISED PERSON

being an Apiary Inspector/person

authorised in that capacity* in (State/Territory*)

hereby certify that:

EITHER:
* After due enquiry I have no reason to doubt the
correctness of the above declaration;
OR:
* I have inspected the 'queen rearing/cell
production/package bee apiaries* described in the above
declaration within the past 4 months and have no reason to

doubt the correctness of the above declaration.

Signed

Date Phone

Address Postcode

This certificate is valid for one month for apiary products/bee colonies/used equipment OR 4 months for queen bees/escorts/queen cells/package bees, from the date of signing.

To be prepared in triplicate. Original (white) copy for the owner, second (blue) copy to accompany consignment. Third (pink) copy to be forwarded by the above inspector to the Senior Apicultural Officer in the State/Territory of destination.

* Delete section or parts, that do NOT apply.

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and Deputy of the Governor.

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Council