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These Regulations may be cited as the Radiation Protection
Regulations 2007.
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These Regulations may be cited as the Radiation Protection
Regulations 2007.
These Regulations commence on the day the Act commences.
In these Regulations:
ANRDR Data Transfer Specification, for Part 2A, see regulation 9A(1).
ARPANSA means the Australian Radiation Protection and
Nuclear Safety Agency.
authorisation, for Part 2A, see regulation 9A(1).
dangerous event, see section 15(1) of the Act.
infringement notice, see regulation 14.
infringement offence, see regulation 13.
licensee, for a licence to possess a radiation source, includes the applicant for the licence.
National Directory means the document entitled
"National Directory for Radiation Protection, edition 1.0" published by ARPANSA as in force from time to time, and includes a later edition of the document as in force from time to time.
National Standard means the document entitled "National standard for limiting occupational exposure to ionizing radiation
[NOHSC:1013(1995)]" published by ARPANSA as part of the
Radiation Protection Series Publication No. 1, and includes a later edition of the document as in force from time to time.
prescribed amount, see regulation 16.
radiation incident, see section 15(5) of the Act.
remediation procedures, see section 15(5) of the Act.
Safety Guide, for Part 2A, see regulation 9A(1).
A reference in these Regulations to a provision of the National
Directory or National Standard includes a reference to the corresponding provision of a later edition of the document.
(1) A radiation protection plan must contain the following information for the radiation practice for which the licensee is authorised to possess a radiation source:
full name and address of the owner of the source;
full name and address of the licensee;
(c) licensee's qualifications and experience and the professional organisations of which the licensee is a member;
nature of the source;
full description of the source and its uses;
full description of the practice;
(g) full name of the occupier, and the exact location, of the place where the source is used and stored;
(h) full names and details of other persons holding an authority in relation to the practice;
safe disposal of the source when it is no longer useful;
radiation protection measures for carrying out the practice;
(k) radiation monitoring equipment to be used in radiation monitoring carried out by the licensee;
(l) remediation procedures for a radiation incident, and emergency procedures for other dangerous events, relating to the practice;
information required by applicable codes of practice.
(2) Without limiting subregulation (1)(e), the following relevant information is required for a full description of the source:
name of the manufacturer;
year of manufacture;
serial number;
type or model;
minimum permanent filtration;
maximum tube voltage;
maximum milliamperes;
(h) approval of radioactive material of special form design against criteria specified by the International Atomic Energy Agency;
(i) test results from the approval process mentioned in paragraph (h);
(j) certificates of calibration included with the manufacturer's report;
type of radionuclide and date of specified activity;
description of encapsulation of radioactive material.
(3) A radiation protection plan must be completed in accordance with applicable guidelines.
(1) For section 6(1)(b) of the Act, a thing that falls within a category of non-ionising radiation apparatus in the National Directory, Schedule 2, is a radiation source.
For section 6(3)(b) of the Act:
(a) the activity or activity concentration for a radioactive material is the activity or activity concentration in the National Directory, Schedule 4, for the material; or
(b) the activity or activity concentration for radioactive material that is a mixture of radioactive materials is the activity or activity concentration in the National Directory, Schedule 4, for each of the materials.
For section 8 of the Act, radioactive material that is a mixture of radioactive materials is material to which the Act does not apply if:
the sum of the fractions obtained by dividing the activity of each material present by the appropriate activity value from the
National Directory, Schedule 4, does not exceed 1; or
the sum of the fractions obtained by dividing the activity concentration of each material present by the appropriate activity concentration value from the National Directory, Schedule 4, does not exceed 1.
For sections 13(3) and 14(2) of the Act, the dose limits for carrying out a radiation practice are the dose limits in the National
Standard, Schedule 1.
For section 26(4)(a) of the Act, the criteria for an applicant for a licence to use a radiation source are the competency requirements in the National Directory, Schedule 6.
In this Part:
ANRDR Data Transfer Specification means the Australian National Radiation Dose Register: ANRDR Data Transfer Specification (2010) published by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, as amended from time to time.
authorisation means Authorisation 0108 granted under section 36 of the Mining Management Act 2001 and any environmental (mining) licence under the Environment Protection Act 2019 that takes the place of that Authorisation, as varied from time to time.
Safety Guide means the Safety Guide for Monitoring, Assessing and Recording Occupational Radiation Doses in Mining and Mineral Processing (2011) published by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, as amended from time to time.
(2) For this Part, a reference in the Safety Guide or ANRDR Data Transfer Specification to:
(a) an employer is taken to be a reference to an operator for a mining site; and
an employee is taken to be a reference to a radiation worker.
For the definition mining site in section 47A of the
Act, the Ranger Project Area, being the land described in Schedule 2 of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth), is prescribed to be a mining site.
For the definition radiation worker in section 47A of the Act, the following classes of workers are prescribed to be radiation workers:
(a) persons who are required under the operator's authorisation to be monitored;
persons who are required under the Safety Guide to be monitored.
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