Radiation Protection and Control Act 2021

The Minister may issue a radiation protection cessation order for the purpose of—

preventing or minimising harm to people or the environment; or

dealing with stockpiled or abandoned radioactive material, that may result from activities or operations regulated by this Act after the activities or operations have ceased.

A radiation protection cessation order issued for a purpose referred to in subsection (1) may impose any requirement of a kind that could be imposed as a condition of an authorisation that is reasonably required for the purpose for which the order is issued (including a requirement of a kind that could be imposed in a radiation protection order issued under section 54).

The regulations may—

limit the circumstances in which a radiation protection cessation order may be issued; or

prescribe circumstances in which a radiation protection cessation order will be taken to have been revoked.

A radiation protection cessation order issued for a purpose referred in subsection (1)—

must be in the form of a notice given in the prescribed manner to the owner for the time being of the land on which the operations or activities were undertaken (whether or not the owner was the person who had undertaken the operations or activities); and

must specify the person to whom the order is being issued (whether by name or a description sufficient to identify the person); and

must state the purpose for which it is issued and specify the harm to the environment that it is directed towards preventing or minimising or the other matter that it is directed towards dealing with (as the case may be); and

must specify any requirements imposed under subsection (2); and

must state that the person may, within 14 days, appeal to the ERD Court against the order.

This section is in addition to, and does not limit the effect of, section 54.

This section does not apply in relation to activities or operations that ceased before the commencement of this section.