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remove from the premises any ibees or used apiary appliances or apparatus 

 until he has secured a permit from the Provincial Apiarist that such bees, 

 used apiary appliances or apparatus have been properly disinfected and are 

 free from disease. 



(2) Bees or used apiary appliances or apparatus shall not toe imported into 

 Ontario from any other Province in Canada or from any State in the United 

 States of America unless accompanied by a certificate from a provincial or 

 state officer certifying that such bees, used apiary appliances or apparatus are 

 free from any infectious or contagious disease, but this shall not apply to the 

 importation into Ontario of bees apart from combs. 



(3) Every person vsfho contravenes the provisions of subsection 1 or of subsection 

 2 of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall incur a penalty of not 

 less than $50 nor more than $100. 



6. Any person verbose bees have been destroyed or treated for foul brood who 

 sells or offers for sale any bees, hives or appurtenances of any kind after such des- 

 truction or treatment and before receiving a permit from the Provincial Apiarist so to 

 dc, or who exposes in his bee-yard, or elsewhere, any infected comb honey or other 

 infected thing, or conceals the fact that such disease exists among his bees, shall incur 

 a penalty of not less than $20 or more than $50, or he may be imprisoned for a term 

 not exceeding two months. 



7. Any owner or possessor of bees who refuses to allow the Inspector to freely 

 examine bees, or the premises on which they are kept, or who refuses to destroy the 

 mlccted bees and appurtenances, or to permit them to be destroyed when so directed 

 by the Inspector, shall, in the complaint of the Inspector, incur a penalty of not less 

 than $25 and not more than $50 for the first offence, and not less than $50 and not 

 more than $100 for the second and any subsequent offence, and the convicting justice 

 shall, by the conviction, order the said owner or possessor forthwith to carry out the 

 directions of the Inspector. 



8. Where such owner or possessor of bees offers resistance to or obstructs the 

 Inspector, a justice of the peace may, upon the complaint of the Inspector, cause a 

 sufficient number of special constables to be sworn in who shall, under the directions 

 of the Inspector, proceed to the premises of such owner or possessor and assist the 

 Inspector to seize all the diseased colonies and infected appurtenances and burn them 

 forthwith, and if necessary the Inspector or constables may arrest the owner or pos- 

 sessor and bring him before a Justice of the Peace to be dealt with according to the 

 provisions of the next preceding section. 



9. Before proceeding against any person before a Justice of the Peace, the 

 Inspector shall read over to such person the provisions of this Act or shall cause a 

 copy thereof to be delivered to him. 



10. Every owner or possessor of bees, and any other person who is aware of the 

 existence of foul brood either in his own apiary or elsewhere, shall immediately notify 

 the Minister of the existence of such disease, and in default of so doing shall incur a 

 penalty of $5. 



11. Each Inspector shall report to the Minister as to the inspection of any apiary 

 m such form and manner as the Minister may direct, and all reports shall be filed in 

 the Department of Agriculture, and shall be made public as the Minister may direct 

 or upon order of the Assembly. 



11a. The Minister of Agriculture, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in 

 Council may make regulations, — 



(a) prescribing the form of application for registration; 



(b) for fixing the fees to be paid for registration and upon a certificate of regis- 

 tration; 



(c) for the registration of beekeepers and prescribing the form of the register 

 and the particulars to be entered therein; 



(d) for requiring beekeepers to make such returns and to furnish such information 

 to Lhe Department as may be deemed necessary or desirable; 



(e) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act. 



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