Queensland Consolidated Acts

APIARIES ACT 1982 - SECT 2

In this Act--

apiary means a hive standing singly or any 2 or more hives standing in a group.

apiary site means the site where any apiary is situated in or upon any place or premises.

appliances means any fittings, utensils, apparatus, or implements that are or have been used or that in the opinion of an inspector are being or have been used in beekeeping or in handling, housing, or storing bees or bee products.

approved form see section 43.

bee means a honey bee Apis mellifera L. or any other genus or species declared under a regulation to be a bee.

bee comb means bee comb whether in frames or not.

beekeeper means any person who keeps bees or the person in charge of bees, or, where reasonable inquiry fails to establish the beekeeper as aforesaid, then the person who is the occupier or owner of the premises or place where the bees in question are kept or who has in the person's possession any hives or appliances which have been used in connection with beekeeping or which are kept in or upon any premises or place owned or occupied by the person.

bee products means beeswax, honey, bee combs, bee venom, drone semen, honeydew, bee collected pollen, propolis and royal jelly, and any other substance declared by order in council to be a bee product for the purposes of this Act.

beeswax means raw beeswax, produced by a beekeeper from bee comb without heat treatment or purification, or refined beeswax, produced by a beekeeper from bee comb with heat treatment to melting point and straining out of extraneous matter, or commercial beeswax, produced by a manufacturer of beeswax products.

brand means the marking or impression of letters and numbers or letters or numbers made upon a hive.

commercial queen bee producer means a registered beekeeper who produces queen bees or queen cells for sale.

disease means any disease, parasite or pest affecting bees or bee products declared under a regulation to be a disease under and for the purposes of this Act, and without limiting the generality of this definition, includes the presence of suspicious symptoms which, although not ascertainable as a certain specific disease, in the opinion of the chief executive, should be declared a disease for the purpose of this Act.

frame hive means a hive containing moveable frames in which the combs are built, and which may be separately and readily removed from the hive for examination.

hive means a receptacle housing living bees or which in the opinion of an inspector, has housed living bees.

honey means the saccharine secretions from the nectaries of flowers that are gathered, modified and stored in the comb by honey bees and are laevorotatory.

honeydew means the saccharine exudations of living parts of plants, and the sweet liquid excreted by hemipterous insects feeding on plants, that are gathered, modified, and stored in the comb by honey bees and are dextrorotatory.

honey-super means upper parts of a hive in which the bees store honey.

honorary inspector means a person appointed by the Minister to carry out the functions of an honorary inspector under this Act.

inspector means a person who is appointed as an inspector under this Act, and includes an honorary inspector.

nucleus means a frame hive containing not more than 6 frames.

owner, of land leased from the State, does not include the State.

place means--

(a) land, whether improved or unimproved, and whether enclosed or unenclosed; or

(b) a building or structure on or in any land, and whether completely or partly erected or constructed, or in the course of being erected or constructed; or

(c) a room in any building or structure.

premises means any place, vehicle, ship, vessel or aircraft.

registered beekeeper means any person registered under this Act as a beekeeper.

sale means sale by wholesale or retail and includes auction, barter, exchange or supply for profit or cause, suffer or allow or attempt any of those acts, offer for sale or attempt to sell, supply or receive for sale, have in possession for sale, expose for sale, send, forward or deliver for or on sale.

State includes Territory.