Bees (Import Control And Management) Act

Bees (Import Control And Management) Act Current Version

January 2022

This is an Act to make provisions for the importation and management of bees and apicultural material. Regulation 4 is for the control of the spread of disease. It states that the President may, for the prevention of the spread of disease or parasitic state among bees and for providing a measure of uniform control in the Federation, authorize the Ministry to make regulations generally for the purposes of this Act, and effective throughout the Federation; and without prejudice to the generality of the power hereby conferred, regulations may provide for obtaining information as to or from any person who keeps bees, and relative to the occurrence of disease or parasitic state among bees, for determining whether any bees or apicultural material are infected, or have been exposed to infection, with any disease or parasitic state and for the destruction or treatment of bees and apicultural material ascertained to be so infected or to have been exposed to such infection.