Requirement for use licence
13 Requirement for use licence
A person must not use a radiation source, unless the person is allowed to use it under a use licence.
Maximum penalty—
for a radiation source that is not a portable security enhanced source—400 penalty units; or
for a portable security enhanced source—2,500 penalty units.
Example of when a person needs a use licence—
A person who uses a radiation source to irradiate another person as part of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure must do so under a use licence allowing the use of the source to carry out the procedure.
Editor’s note—
Under section 49(2), only an individual may apply for a use licence.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if—
the person is using the source in the presence, and under the personal supervision, of a use licensee who is allowed, under the licence, to use the source to carry out a radiation practice; and
the use is for the purpose of—
helping the licensee to carry out the practice, if the practice is a prescribed radiation practice; or
the person undergoing training prescribed under a regulation.
In this section—
prescribed radiation practice means a radiation practice, other than the carrying out of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure involving the irradiation of another person, prescribed under a regulation.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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