Apiaries Act 1969.

This Act regulates the keeping of bees and use of drugs for bees and introduces measures for the prevention of diseases affecting bees and measures for the control of honey produced in any specified part of New Zealand which is likely to contain poison No person shall keep bees in any place for a period of more than 14 days, unless that place is registered as an apiary under this Act. For the purposes of this Act, the Director-General may, by notice in the Gazette, divide New Zealand into apiary registration districts having the names set out in the notice, and may appoint for each registration district a registration office, and may allocate a code letter to each registration district. The Registrar for each registration district shall keep a register of apiaries for the district. Where the Minister believes that honey produced in any specified part of New Zealand is likely to contain poison, he may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that part of New Zealand to be a restricted area for the purposes of this Act.