Radiation Safety Act 1999

The main object of this Act is to protect persons and the environment from the harmful effects of particular sources of ionising radiation and harmful non-ionising radiation.

The object is to be achieved mainly by—

establishing a licensing regime to regulate—

the possession and use of radiation sources; and

the transportation of radioactive substances; and

establishing a legislative framework to ensure radiation sources and the premises at which they are used, and the premises at which radioactive substances are stored, comply with radiation safety standards; and

imposing restrictions on—

the acquisition and relocation of radiation sources; and

the disposal of radiation apparatus and radioactive material; and

requiring a person who possesses a radiation source for a radiation practice to have an approved radiation safety and protection plan for the practice; and

requiring a person who possesses a security enhanced source to have an approved security plan for the source; and

requiring a person to have an approved transport security plan for the transport of a security enhanced source; and

ensuring the health and safety of any person are, or the environment is, not adversely affected by the carrying out of radiation practices with radiation sources; and

establishing a legislative framework within which compliance monitoring, and investigative and enforcement activities, may be undertaken; and

establishing the Radiation Advisory Council.