Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2003 (SA)

South Australia

Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2003

An Act to amend the Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Act 2000.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

1—Short title

1. (1)

   This Act may be cited as the Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Amendment Act 2003.

2. (2)

   The Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Act 2000 is referred to in this Act as "the principal Act".

2—Amendment of s. 4—Interpretation

Section 4 of the principal Act is amended—

1. (a)

   by inserting before the definition of environmental harm the following definition:

   Code of Practice means the Code of Practice for the Near-Surface Disposal of Radioactive Waste in Australia (1992) approved by the National Health and Medical Research Council and published by the Australian Government Publishing Service as Radiation Health Series No. 35 (ISBN 0 644 28673 3);;

2. (b)

   by striking out the definition of nuclear waste and substituting the following definition:

   nuclear waste means—

   1. (a)

      Category A, Category B or Category C radioactive waste as defined in the Code of Practice; or

   2. (b)

      any waste material that contains a radioactive substance and is derived from—

      1. (i)

         the operations or decommissioning of—

         1. (A)

            a nuclear reactor; or

         2. (B)

            a nuclear weapons facility; or

         3. (C)

            a radioisotope production facility; or

         4. (D)

            a uranium enrichment plant; or

      2. (ii)

         the testing, use or decommissioning of nuclear weapons; or

      3. (iii)

         the conditioning or reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel;.

3—Insertion of s. 15

The following section is inserted after section 14 of the principal Act:

15—Expiry of Act

This Act expires on 19 July 2003.