Section 1: Control of importation of bees and apicultural material

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall on and after the appointed day import into Nigeria any bees, or any apicultural material for use in connection with bees or bee-keeping, unless that person is the holder of a permit in the prescribed form issued under this Act.
(2) Where application in that behalf is made to the Minister of Agriculture (hereafter in this Act referred to as "the Minister") on the prescribed form together with the appropriate fee, the Minister may on such conditions as he may impose, approve the application or, if he thinks fit, he may reject the application without being required to assign any reason for the rejection, but any fee paid in respect of the rejected application shall be refunded.
(3) With the application there shall in every case be submitted in the prescribed form an undertaking to do all things which may be considered by the Minister necessary for the prevention of disease or parasitic state among bees, and to destroy or treat in proper case after importation, bees or apicultural material found so infected or suspected of being infected.
(4) A permit issued under this section shall not be transferable or assignable, but may, in such manner as the Minister may authorise or approve, be withdrawn or suspended, or after suspension be withdrawn, by the Minister or any person duly authorised by him in that behalf, so however that the withdrawal or the suspension of a permit under this subsection shall not affect entry already made in pursuance of the permit, but any conditions attaching to the permit shall apply as if the permit had not been withdrawn or suspended.
(5) Any person who-
(a)
imports any bees or apicultural material into Nigeria otherwise than in accordance with this Act; or
(b) contravenes the conditions of a permit under this Act; or
(c)
fails to comply with the terms of any undertaking given by him pursuant to this Act, shall be guilty of an offence.