Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) (Public Money) Amendment Act 2016 (SA)

South Australia

Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) (Public Money) Amendment Act 2016

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

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1Preliminary1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) (Public Money) Amendment Act 2016.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Subject to subsection (2), this Act will come into operation on the day on which it is assented to by the Governor.

2. (2)

   Section 4 will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3. (3)

   A proclamation may not be made under subsection (2) unless the Governor is satisfied that the Commission has, in its final report on the matters referred to it by the Governor, recommended the undertaking of—

   1. (a)

      public consultation in relation to the establishment of a nuclear waste storage facility in this State; or

   2. (b)

      any activity associated with the construction or operation of a nuclear waste storage facility in this State.

4. (4)

   In this section—

Commission means the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission constituted of Rear Admiral The Honourable Kevin John Scarce, AC, CSC, RANR and established on 19 March 2015;

nuclear waste storage facility has the same meaning as in the Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Act 2000.

3Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2Amendment of Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition) Act 2000

4Amendment of section 13 – No public money to be used to encourage or finance construction or operation of nuclear waste storage facility

Section 13—after its present contents (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:

1. (2)

   Subsection (1) does not prohibit the appropriation, expenditure or advancement to a person of public money for the purpose of encouraging or financing community consultation or debate on the desirability or otherwise of constructing or operating a nuclear waste storage facility in this State.

Part 3Expiry of Act5Expiry of Act

This Act will expire on the day falling 6 weeks after the day on which this Part commences unless section 4 comes into operation before that day.