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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2538 ..

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While most bee keeping in the ACT is now undertaken as a hobby, with hives kept in suburban back yards, there are commercial apiaries in areas of New South Wales near the ACT. The disease control provisions of the Animal Diseases Act 1993 will be used to prevent the spread of serious disease from the ACT to these apiaries.

The amendments proposed for the Animal Diseases Act 1993 will make it clear that this legislation could be applied to bees, by defining an animal as including a vertebrate and an invertebrate. The Act provides for authorised Inspectors to enter a premises (with the owner's consent or with a warrant) and to destroy diseased bees and hives.

The current practice in the ACT is for bee keepers to seek the assistance of the Department's apiarist for the identification of endemic disease.

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