Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 23 May 2024

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Ged Kearney

Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Aged Care

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2024.	1 July 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Regulations 2018

1. 1

   Section 49 (table item 1, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “10,607”, substitute “11,031”.

1. 2

   Section 49 (table item 2, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “11,787”, substitute “12,258”.

1. 3

   Section 49 (table item 3, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “834”, substitute “867”.

1. 4

   Section 49 (table item 4, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “2,463”, substitute “2,561”.

1. 5

   Section 49 (table item 5, column headed “Fee ($)”)

Omit “9,215”, substitute “9,583”.

6

Paragraph 50(2)(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

1. (a)

   $183 for each hour, or part of an hour, spent in assessing the application, less $11,031; and

7

Paragraph 84(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

1. (a)

   the Protection from Harmful Radiation Act 1990 (NSW);

8

In the appropriate position in Part 8

Insert:

Division 6—Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024

100Fees

1. (1)

   The amendments of section 49 made by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Amendment (2024 Measures No. 1) Regulations 2024 (the amending instrument) apply in relation to applications made on or after 1 July 2024.

2. (2)

   Section 50, as amended by the amending instrument,applies in relation to applications made on or after 1 July 2024.

3. (3)

   Despite the amendment of section 50 by the amending instrument, that section continues to apply, in relation to applications made, but not finally determined, before 1 July 2024, as if:

   1. (a)

      that amendment had not been made; and

   2. (b)

      the fee for each hour, or part of an hour, spent on or after 1 July 2024 in assessing the application were $183.