Australian Capital Territory Numbered Ordinances

Radiation (Amendment) Ordinance 1986

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Radiation (Amendment) Ordinance 1986

No. 50 of 1986

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 27 August 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. SCHOLES

Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Radiation Ordinance 1983

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Radiation (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.¹

Principal Ordinance

2. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Radiation Ordinance 1983.²

3. After section 16 of the Principal Ordinance the following section is inserted in Division 1 of Part II:

Remuneration

“16A. The Council is a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Remuneration Ordinance 1976.”.

Exemptions

4. Section 25 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “radiation worker employed by, and acting under the direction and supervision of, a person” and substituting “person acting under the direction and supervision of another person”.

Duties of radiation safety officer

5. Section 39 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (1) (a) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a) as soon as practicable after having been appointed to be the Radiation Safety Officer by a licensee, investigate and record all radioactive sources on the licensed premises;

(ab) record each radioactive source that comes onto or leaves the licensed premises;”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (1) (l) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(l) take reasonable steps to ensure that each radioactive source on the licensed premises is held in a safe and secure place when not in use;

(la) at least once in each calendar month, check all radioactive sources on the licensed premises against the records kept in pursuance of paragraphs (a) and (ab) and, where there is a discrepancy, report the matter immediately to the licensee and to the Chairman;”.

Matters to be considered in calculating dose

6. Section 46 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (1) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) doses received by a person from any radioactive source or irradiating apparatus shall be counted;”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “, other than doses referred to in paragraph (a),”; and

(c) by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:

“(2) If the dose to a person accumulated by that person during any part of a calendar year is not known, it shall be assumed, for the purpose of sub-section (1), that the person has received during the whole of that calendar year a dose equal to 365 times the average daily dose calculated from the part of the calendar year for which the person’s dose is known.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 August 1986.

2. No. 58, 1983.