Radiation Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 (Qld)
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Queensland Subordinate Legislation 2002 No. 322 Radiation Safety Act 1999 RADIATION SAFETY AMENDMENT REGULATION (No. 1) 2002 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 Commencement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 Amendment of s 40 (Prescribed radiation practices—Act, s 13(3)) . . . . . . . 2 5 Amendment of s 43 (Exemption from requirement for use licence—Act, s 210) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 Replacement of s 45 (Smoke detectors—Act, s 210) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 45 Smoke detectors—Act, s 210. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 7 Amendment of s 51 (Abrasive blasting material containing radionuclides—Act, s 210) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 Amendment of sch 3A (Authorised persons) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 9 Amendment of sch 6 (Dictionary). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
s1 2 s5 Radiation Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 No. 322, 2002 1 Short title This regulation may be cited as the Radiation Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 . 2 Commencement Section 9(1), and section 9(2) to the extent it inserts the definition “transport code of practice”, commence on 1 March 2003. 3 Regulation amended This regulation amends the Radiation Safety Regulation 1999. 4 Amendment of s 40 (Prescribed radiation practices—Act, s 13(3)) Section 40(1)(e), ‘maintenance, servicing’— omit, insert — ‘commissioning, maintenance’. 5 Amendment of s 43 (Exemption from requirement for use licence—Act, s 210) (1) Section 43(e)— omit, insert — ‘(e) an ionising radiation source designed only for irradiating things, but not including use of the source by a person who is carrying out commissioning, maintenance or repair of the source;’. (2) Section 43— insert — ‘(j) a fully enclosed analytical radiation apparatus used for its intended use.’. (3) Section 43— insert — ‘ (2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1)(e) does not apply to an ionising radiation source designed for irradiating individuals.’.
s6 3 s6 Radiation Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 No. 322, 2002 6 Replacement of s 45 (Smoke detectors—Act, s 210) Section 45— omit, insert — ‘45 Smoke detectors—Act, s 210 ‘ (1) For section 210 of the Act— (a) a radioactive substance incorporated in a domestic smoke detector is exempt from sections 12, 13 and 26 1 of the Act; and (b) a radioactive substance incorporated in an ionisation chamber smoke detector that is not a domestic smoke detector is exempt from sections 12 and 13 of the Act if the detector was— (i) acquired before 1 January 2000; or (ii) manufactured in accordance with AS 1603.2-1997 (Automatic fire detection and alarm systems, Part 2: Point type smoke detectors). ‘ (2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) does not apply while the detector is being manufactured or repaired. ‘ (3) In this section— “domestic smoke detector” means an ionisation chamber smoke detector containing the radionuclide americium-241 having an activity of not more than 37 kBq and manufactured in accordance with AS 3786-1993 (Smoke alarms), 2nd ed. 2 ’. 1 Sections 12 (Requirement for possession licence), 13 (Requirement for use licence) and 26 (Disposal of radioactive material) of the Act 2 Copies of the standard and other Australian Standards and Australian/New Zealand Standards referred to in this regulation are available from Standards Australia, 232 St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
s7 4 s9 Radiation Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 No. 322, 2002 7 Amendment of s 51 (Abrasive blasting material containing radionuclides—Act, s 210) Section 51(4), ‘ARMCANZ, by 10’— omit, insert — ‘ARMCANZ, 3 by 10’. 8 Amendment of sch 3A (Authorised persons) (1) Schedule 3A, item 13, column 2— insert — ‘(c) the holder of a written approval from the chief executive, stating the person is competent to carry out the procedure and who is, under the Medical Practitioners Registration Act 2001 — (i) registered as a specialist registrant in a specialty other than a specialty mentioned in paragraph (a); or (ii) a medical practitioner and undergoing a period of training in a specialty other than a specialty mentioned in paragraph (b).’. (2) Schedule 3A, item 19, column 2, paragraph (c), item 20, column 2, paragraph (b) and item 22, column 2, paragraph (b), ‘request’— omit, insert — ‘prescribe’. 9 Amendment of sch 6 (Dictionary) (1) Schedule 6, definition “transport code of practice”— omit . (2) Schedule 6— insert — 3 The document entitled ‘Australian Drinking Water Guidelines’ is available from Australian Government Publishing Service, City Plaza, corner Adelaide and George Streets, Brisbane.
s9 5 s9 Radiation Safety Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2002 No. 322, 2002 ‘ “commissioning” means the tasks involved in installing a radiation source, including tasks to ensure the source is operating in the way it is designed to operate. “fully enclosed analytical radiation apparatus” means an ionising radiation apparatus, used for physical or chemical analysis, in which— (a) the radiation source, the sample for analysis and equipment irradiated in the analytical process are enclosed in a chamber, or coupled chambers, designed to prevent any person being exposed to the primary x-ray beam of the source during normal operation of the apparatus; and (b) the sample for analysis is transferred from a sample port to the chamber in which it is irradiated by a mechanism that prevents any person gaining access to the chamber during normal operation of the apparatus. “transport code of practice” means the Code of Practice for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material (2001) 4 published by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency.’. (3) Schedule 6, definition “gaseous tritium light device”, after ‘subassembly’— insert — ‘, other than equipment or an instrument, article or subassembly that is a timepiece,’. ENDNOTES 1. Made by the Governor in Council on 5 December 2002. 2. Notified in the gazette on 6 December 2002. 3. Laid before the Legislative Assembly on . . . 4. The administering agency is the Department of Health © State of Queensland 2002 4 The Code of Practice for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material (2001) is available from Australian Government Publishing Service, City Plaza, corner Adelaide and George Streets, Brisbane or on the internet at
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