50Coastal Region—Southern Subregion

50 Coastal Region—Southern Subregion

50 Coastal Region—Southern Subregion

(1) This section applies to the Southern Subregion.

(2) The holder of a forest permit for bee-keeping activities may pick native vegetation if picking is required to—

(a) set down a beehive in an apiary range, or

(b) access a beehive, or

(c) protect a beehive from the risk of bush fire, if picking for this purpose is permitted under the permit.

(3) For the Act, section 60(4), the holder of a forest permit for bee-keeping activities must not pick native vegetation to enable a beehive to be set down in a State forest exclusion zone unless—

(a) a beehive was established on the site before 12 May 2002, or

(b) the land manager permits the holder of the forest permit to pick native vegetation on the site.

(4) The land manager may only permit the holder of a forest permit to pick native vegetation under subsection (3)(b) if—

(a) the site was within a mapped apiary range before the land became a special management zone, a Forest Management Zone 2 or 3A or an environmentally sensitive area, and

(b) the land changes status.

(5) This section does not apply if the vegetation is a tree that has a diameter at breast height over bark of more than 20cm.

(6) The holder of a forest permit for bee-keeping activities may set down a beehive in an apiary range if the beehive is able to be set down without picking native vegetation.

(7) The land manager must not give permission for the holder of a forest permit for bee-keeping activities to clear native vegetation to enable a beehive to be set down in an apiary range unless—

(a) the land manager is satisfied that a beehive has been set down in the apiary range at least once on or after 1 January 1990, or

(b) the site is in an area that has been logged in a harvesting operation carried out on or after 1 January 1995.