Beekeepers Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 2000 (WA)

4904 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA [25 August 2000

AGRICULTURE

AG301*

Beekeepers Act 1963

Beekeepers Amendment Regulations

(No. 2) 2000

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Beekeepers Amendment
Regulations (No. 2) 2000.

2.             Regulation 27A and heading inserted

After regulation 27 of the Beekeepers Regulations 1963* the following heading and regulation are inserted —

“

Approved Devices

27A.	Devices approved for pollination purposes
(1)	A beekeeper who owns bees, or has the charge, care or possession of bees, that are kept in a device approved for the purposes of section 8(1a) of the Act shall clearly and indelibly mark on the device the date when the bees are first placed in it.
(2)	The prescribed manner of disposing of the bees and the device for the purposes of section 8(1a) of the Act is —

(a)	by destroying the bees immediately after flying has ended at night by pouring petrol into the device and immediately closing it;
(b)	by burning the device and the dead bees in a pit in the ground; and
(c)	by burying the burnt remains under at least 0.3 metres of earth.

”.

[* Reprinted as at 23 April 1999.

For amendments to 24 July 2000 see Gazette 30 June 2000.]

By Command of the Governor,

ROD SPENCER, Clerk of the Executive Council.