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Levy Invoices Under the Biosecurity (American Foulbrood – Apiary and Beekeeper Levy) Order 2003, a levy is imposed on all beekeepers in New Zealand and is payable to the AFB PMP Management Board in order to fund the above Pest Management Plan The invoices are raised in early April of each year and are based on the apiary and hive numbers registered against individual beekeepers on the apiary database. Beekeepers are advised it is AFB PMP Management Board policy to calculate the amount owing based on the apiary and hive holdings as at 31 March of each year as definitive for invoicing purposes.
To further clarify, this means the invoice total as calculated is what you will owe.
IMPORTANT It is the responsibility of all beekeepers to ensure the apiary database correctly reflects his/her apiary and hive holdings at all times particularly as at 31 March of each year. Please note this includes any seasonal apiaries used during this honey season. The appropriate clause under the Order 98 states 18 Seasonal apiaries (1) A place notified to the mangement agency as an apiary where the beehives are situated for specified months of the calendar year is a seasonal apiary. (2) Despite anything to the contrary in this order, a seasonal apiary continues to be an apiary as long as beehives owned by the beekeeper who notified the place to the management agency as an apiary are situated in that place for more than 30 consecutive days in any year beginning on 1 July.
For further information on this subject, please refer to the Management Board policy number AFB/22/0/11-027, which can be found on www.afb.org.nz.
Rex Baynes AFB PMP Manager
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