Control measures relating to honey-bees (G.N. No. R. 1674).

Articles 2 and 3 restrict the moving of bees beyond a line defined in article 1: no person shall move African bees from an area north of the line to an area south of the line or Cape bees north of the line without prior written approval for the executive officer. All users of land and all bee-keepers in the area north of the line, shall under the instructions and specifications of the authority, destroy within 72 hours of discovery, all honey-bee colonies that are queenless and in which laying workers are active (art. 4). All bee-keepers shall register with the authority within 12 months of the date of publication of these control measures in the Gazette (art. 5). All bee-hives shall be marked to display clearly and legibly the registration number allocated the bee-keeper in terms of control measure (art. 6). Upon request, scientific research institutions involved in apicultural research may be exempted from the provisions of control measure 4 (art. 7). The South African Professional Bee-Farmers Cooperative Limited is authorized to carry out control measure (art. 8).