The Management Agency of the American Foulbrood National Pest Management Strategy (the National Beekeepers' Association (Inc)), hereby notifies, as prescribed in the Biosecurity (American Foulbrood -
Apiary and Beekeeper Levy) Order 2003, the rate of
the levy for the 2004-2005 year - being from 1 June 2004
to 31 May 2005.
The rate will be (excluding G.S.T.):
(a) Base levy of $20.00; and
(b) apiary levy of $8.00 per apiary.
However, as stated in clause 7 (4), if a beekeeper owns fewer than 11 beehives on fewer than four apiaries, the sum of the number of registered apiaries must be treated as one.
JANE LORIMER, President, National Beekeepers' Association (Inc).