Insurance for Individuals | Expires 10-04-2025

Victorian Apiarists Association (VAA) Comprehensive and cost-effective third-party insurance package Insurance for individual beekeeper. • The policy brokers are AON and the Underwriter is SLE. • The policy is valid from the date of purchase until 10 April 2025. • The excess is $500 for each claim. The following activities are covered for individual beekeepers with up to 200 hives. • Maintenance of one or more apiary sites with beehives • Assembling & building beekeeping equipment Working on beehives • Moving beehives • Collecting bee swarms and established colonies. (The collection of swarms and established colonies must be a community service and not a commercial undertaking and incidental to the member’s usual beekeeping activities) • Extracting, bottling or packing honey and honey products • Selling honey and honey products • Selling beekeeping equipment • Attending markets and shows. • Public liability of $20,000,000 NOTE: Activities for individual members do not include: • Liabilities arising from any damage made/caused by the beekeeper to gain access to the bees, such as in swarm collection. The following products are covered for individual beekeepers: • Apiarian/bee products including the production, distribution and sale of: • Liquid honey • Creamed honey • Candied honey • Creamed or liquid honey with up to 8% natural fruit/plant flavouring • Pollen • Queen bees • Bee colonies • Honeycomb and chunk honey • Bees wax and candles • Bees wax furniture polish