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5. Any Inspector may enter upon any premises or 

 buildings for the purpose of examining any bees, hives, 

 or bee appliances, and if the same are found to be 

 infected with disease he shall direct the bee-keeper to 

 forthwith take such measures as may be necessary to 

 cure the disease ; or, if in the opinion of the Inspector 

 the disease is too fully developed to be cured, he may 

 direct the bee-keeper within a specified time to destroy 

 by fire the bees, hives, and appliances so infected, or 

 such portions thereof as the Inspector deems necessary. 



6. In any case in which it is found by an Inspector 

 that the bee-combs in any hive cannot, without cutting, 

 be separately and readily removed from the hive for 

 examination, he may direct the bee-keeper to transfer 

 the bees to a new frame hive within a specified time. 



7. (i.) Every direction by an Inspector shall be in 

 writing under his hand, and shall be either delivered to 

 the bee-keeper personally or sent to him by registered 

 letter addressed to him at his last-known place of abode. 



(2.) Every such direction shall be faithfully complied 

 with by the bee-keeper to whom it is addressed, and, 

 in default of compliance within the time specified, the 

 Inspector may within one month destroy or cause to be 

 destroyed by fire, at the expense of the bee-keeper, any 

 bees, hives, and appliances found to be infected with 

 disease. 



8. No bee-keeper shall — 



(o.) Keep or allow to be kept upon any land occu- 

 pied by him any bees, bee-combs, hives, or 

 appliances known by him to be infected 

 by disease without immediately taking the 

 proper steps to cure the disease; or 



{b.) Sell, barter, or give away any bees or appli- 

 ances from an apiary known by him to be 

 infected by disease. 



9. No bee-keeper shall, after the expiry of six months 

 from the passing of this Act, keep or knowingly allow 

 to be kept on any land occupied by him any bees except 

 in a properly constructed frame hive. 



