Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 2581

Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards)

Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987.

Dated 29 October 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

John Kerin

Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy

 

Nuclear material to which Part II of the Act does not apply

Regulation 3 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from subparagraph (1) (d) (i) “or” (last occurring);

(b) by inserting after subparagraph (1) (d) (ii) the following word and subparagraph:

“; or (iii) a prescribed alloy in a quantity not exceeding 10 kilograms element weight of uranium or thorium;”; and

(c) by adding at the end the following subregulation:

“(3) In this regulation, a reference to a prescribed alloy shall be read as a reference to an alloy that is not:

(a) intended for use for the purposes of a nuclear activity;

(b) of a composition and purity making it suitable for fuel fabrication or for isotopic enrichment; or

(c) subject to the provisions of a prescribed international agreement.”.

(S.R. 218/87)—Cat. No.  16/23.9.1987

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 November 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1987 No. 75.

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