Statutory
Rules 1981 No. 3461
Environment
Protection (Nuclear Codes) Regulations
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice
of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under
the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978.
Dated
26 November 1981.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for
Home Affairs and Environment
Citation
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Regulations.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations, “the Act”
means the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978.
Radioactive
substances
3. For the purposes of the
definition of “prescribed
substance” in section 4 of the
Act, a substance the radioactivity of which exceeds 74,000 becquerels per
kilogram of the substance, being a substance other than uranium, thorium, or an
element having an atomic number greater than 92, is declared to be a radioactive
substance.
NOTE
1. Notified in
the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on
3 December 1981.
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