Western Australian Current Acts

RADIATION SAFETY ACT 1975 - SECT 13

13 .         Radiological Council

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act there shall be a body to be known as the Radiological Council.

        (2)         The Council consists of —

            (a)         a medical practitioner appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Chief Health Officer, or other person nominated to preside in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3); and

            (b)         not less than 6 nor more than 8 other members appointed by the Governor, of whom —

                  (i)         one shall be a medical practitioner who is a specialist in radiology or radiotherapy; and

                  (ii)         one shall be a medical practitioner who is a physician specialising in nuclear medicine; and

                  (iii)         one shall be a person who possesses relevant qualifications or experience as a physicist; and

                  (iv)         one shall be a person who possesses relevant qualifications or experience as a radiation engineer or electronic engineer; and

                  (v)         one shall be representative of the interests of tertiary educational institutions; and

                  (vi)         2 may be nominated by the Minister with the advice of the other members of the Council as being persons having special knowledge of the problems of radiation hazards; and

                  (vii)         one shall be a medical radiation practitioner.

        (3)         The medical practitioner appointed under subsection (2)(a) on the recommendation of the Chief Health Officer shall be the chairman of the Council and shall preside at any meeting at which he is present, but the Governor on the recommendation of the Chief Health Officer may nominate a person who is a medical practitioner to act as deputy chairman and in the absence or incapacity of the chairman of the Council the person so appointed shall be entitled to attend and shall preside at any meeting and shall have and may exercise all the powers of the chairman of the Council during the period in which he acts in that office.

        (4)         Where the chairman of the Council and the deputy chairman are both absent from a meeting of the Council, the Council members present shall appoint one of their number present to preside at the meeting.

        (5)         A member shall be paid such remuneration and allowances as the Governor determines.

        [Section 13 amended: No. 63 of 1981 s. 4; No. 28 of 1984 s. 97; No. 21 of 2006 Sch. 3 cl. 5(6); No. 35 of 2010 s. 144; No. 19 of 2016 s. 102.]