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RADIATION SAFETY ACT 1999 - SECT 47A

47A Banning of certain radiation practices

(1) A person in possession of a prescribed radiation source must not allow a radiation practice to be carried out that exposes another person prescribed under a regulation to radiation emitted from the source in the circumstances prescribed under a regulation.

Maximum penalty--400 penalty units.

(2) For this section, a solarium is taken to be a radiation apparatus.

Note--
A radiation apparatus is a radiation source (see schedule 2, definition radiation source).

(3) In this section--

prescribed radiation source means--

(a) a solarium; or
(b) another radiation source prescribed under a regulation.

solarium means an electrically powered apparatus designed to produce tanning of human skin by exposure of the skin to non-ionising radiation emitted by the apparatus.



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