Apiaries Amendment Act 1958
Apiaries Amendment Act 1958
Apiaries Amendment Act 1958
Apiaries Amendment Act 1958
Public Act |
1958 No 12 |
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Date of assent |
18 September 1958 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Apiaries Act 1927
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Apiaries Amendment Act 1958, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Apiaries Act 1927 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Compensation
Section fourteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, before the words “No person”
, the words “Except as provided in any regulations made under this Act”
.
3 Regulations
(1)
Subsection one of section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph (a), the following paragraphs:
“(aa)
For eradicating or preventing the spread of any disease:
“(ab)
Providing that any land on which any specified disease is found may, together with any land within two miles thereof, be declared by an Inspector to be an infected area:
“(ac)
Providing that any part of New Zealand may be declared by the Minister to be a quarantine area:
“(ad)
Prohibiting or restricting, except with the approval of an Inspector and upon or subject to any conditions he may think fit to impose, the introduction into an infected area or a quarantine area, or the removal from any such area, of any bees or honey or appliances:”.
(2)
Subsection one of section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing paragraph (f), and substituting the following paragraphs:
“(f)
Prescribing the treatment and measures to be adopted in respect of any bees or honey or appliances which are diseased or infected, or likely to become diseased or infected, and requiring the cleaning and disinfecting of appliances and other things which may have come into contact with any such bees or honey or appliances:
“(ff)
Providing for the destruction or special treatment of any bees or honey or appliances (whether or not they are diseased or infected), and for the payment in such cases as the Governor-General thinks fit, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, of compensation for any such destruction or treatment at such rates as may be prescribed by the regulations:”.
(3)
Subsection one of section sixteen of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after paragraph (j), the following paragraphs:
“(jj)
Prescribing the functions and powers of Inspectors:
“(jk)
Providing for the appointment of advisory committees; and for the payment to the members of any such committee, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, of remuneration by way of fees, salary, or allowances and travelling allowances and expenses in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951:”.