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Livestock Disease Control Act 1994
124Direction to attend at hives
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124 Direction to attend at hives
(1) An inspector may by notice in writing to a beekeeper, require the beekeeper to attend at the beekeeper's hives at the time specified in the notice and remove or cause to be removed from any hive such frame or honeycomb as the inspector requires and facilitate the inspection of the hive by the inspector.
(2) An inspector must give a beekeeper at least 7 days notice under subsection (1) unless the inspector has reasonable grounds for believing the hives are infected with disease and advises the beekeeper of those grounds.