Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts In this Act unless the
context otherwise requires —
authorised officer means a person who is appointed
in writing by the Executive Director;
Council means the Radiological Council established
pursuant to section 13;
electronic product means a manufactured or
assembled article, or any component, part or accessory of a manufactured or
assembled article, which when in operation contains or acts as part of an
electrical circuit, or which acts by electro-magnetic amplification employing
a resonant space, and emits (or in the absence of effective shielding or other
control would emit) —
(a)
ionising or non-ionising, electro-magnetic, or particulate radiation; or
(b) any
sonic, infrasonic or ultrasonic wave,
save that the provisions of this Act shall not
apply thereto except in so far as is prescribed;
Executive Director means the Executive Director,
Public Health and Scientific Support Services of the department of the Public
Service of the State principally assisting the Minister in the administration
of this Act;
irradiating apparatus means any apparatus capable
of producing ionising radiation of any prescribed type, or capable of
accelerating atomic particles under any prescribed conditions;
medical radiation technologist has the meaning
given to that term in section 3 of the Medical Radiation Technologists
Act 2006 ;
owner , used in relation to any substance,
apparatus, product, article or premises, means the person to whom it belongs
or the hirer, lessee, borrower, bailee, or mortgagee in possession, thereof,
and includes any attorney, agent, manager, foreman, supervisor or other person
in charge or having control or management thereof, or any person acting or
representing himself to be acting for an owner; and the concept of possession
shall be construed accordingly;
purchaser includes any person, other than a
carrying agent, acting on behalf of a purchaser;
radioactive substance means any substances,
whether natural or artificial, and whether in the form of a solid, a liquid, a
gas, or a vapour, or any compound or mixture, including any article that has
been manufactured or subjected to any artificial treatment or process, which
consists of or contains more than the maximum prescribed concentration of any
radioactive element, whether natural or artificial;
sell , without limiting the scope of the primary
meaning, includes —
(a)
placing on the market for sale;
(b)
bargaining, barter, exchange, loaning or giving;
(c)
supply and use under a contract for work and materials;
(d)
dealing in, or agreeing, causing, permitting or attempting to sell or allowing
to be sold;
(e)
offering, exposing, receiving, supplying or possessing for the purposes of
sale;
(f)
sending or delivering for sale or on sale with or without consideration;
(g)
supply or disposal under hire purchase, credit sale or otherwise upon terms;
and
(h)
wholesale, bulk, and retail trading,
and the concepts of sale and purchase shall be
construed accordingly;
seller includes any person acting or representing
himself to be acting for a seller; and
the repealed Acts means the Acts repealed by this
Act pursuant to section 5.
[Section 4 amended by No. 63 of 1981
s. 4; No. 28 of 1984 s. 96 and 97; No. 21 of 2006 Sch. 3
cl. 5(2)-(4).]
[ 5. Deleted by No. 21 of 2006 Sch. 3
cl. 5(5).]