National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012

This section applies to:

the Commonwealth; and

a Commonwealth entity; and

a Commonwealth contractor; and

an employee or agent of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

A person to whom this section applies may, in relation to the selected site, do anything necessary for or incidental to any or all of the following:

gathering or preparing information for a Commonwealth regulatory scheme that relates to:

the construction or operation of a facility; or

anything done in preparation for the construction or operation of a facility;

conducting activities that relate to gathering or preparing information for such a regulatory scheme;

preparing the selected site for a facility;

preparing to construct and operate a facility;

constructing a facility;

constructing roads on, or grading, land in a State or Territory;

erecting fences and other access controls on land specified in the declaration under subsection 14(4);

operating a facility;

maintaining a facility;

keeping a facility safe;

decommissioning a facility.

Without limiting subsection (2), the person may, under that subsection, do a thing mentioned in subsection 11(3) in relation to the selected site.

Subsection (2) extends to doing things outside the selected site.

A person to whom this section applies may, in relation to the selected site:

transport (including through a State or Territory) people and materials (including controlled material) to or from a facility; and

use transport infrastructure for that transport.