Radiation Safety (General) Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 1993 (WA)

28 January 1994)	GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA	281
11E302	RADIATION SAFETY ACT 1975

1. These regulations may be cited as the Radiation Safety (General) Amendment Regulations (No. 6) 1993.

RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (NO. 6) 1993

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

282 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA (28 January 1994

Principal regulations

2. In these regulations the Radiation Safety (General) Regulations 1983* are referred to as the principal regulations.

(*

For amendments to 16 December 1993 see 1992 Index to	Published in Gazette of 21 February 1983 at pp. 555-636.
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 4 and 28 May, 11 June and 9 July 1993.1 216, and Gazettes of

Regulation 7B inserted

3. After regulation 7A of the principal regulations the following regulation
is inserted -

Exemptions relating to Americium 241 contained in certain smoke detectors

'TB.	(1) In this regulation -
"smoke detector" means a device incorporated into a smoke alarm or a smoke alarm system that responds to combustion products capable of affecting currents of ionisation within that device.

Americium 241, when contained in a smoke detector, is exempted (2) Subject to this regulation the radioactive substance from the provisions of the Act and these regulations.

unless the smoke detector in which the Americium 241 is (3) The exemption under subregulation (2) does not apply contained -

contains no more than 40 kilobecquerels of that

(a)	substance;
(b)	entitled "Self-contained Smoke Alarms", being complies with the requirements of the publication
AS 3786-1993 issued by the Standards Association of Australia; and
(c)	is of a model or type that has been tested and approved by the Scientific Services Laboratory of the
Australian Construction Services, Department of Administrative Services of the Commonwealth.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in this regulation, sections 25 and 28 of the Act apply to a person who is the owner of any	premises, or of any part of any premises, where the total quantity
of Americium 241 contained in smoke detectors stored or installed on or in those premises exceeds 100 megabecquerels.
regulation, in possession of a smoke detector containing no more (5) A person who was, before the commencement of this
than 40 kiTobcquerels of Americium 241 is exempted Trom section 34 of the Act for the purposes of the disposal of that detector.

Regulation 24 amended

4.     Regulation 24 (2) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

"item 1 (7)" and substituting the following -

item 1 (5)

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Schedule I amended

5. Schedule I to the principal regulations is amended in item 1 (1) —

(a)	by deleting "or" after paragraph (e);
(b)	by deleting the fullstop after paragraph (f) and substituting the following —

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; or "; and

(c) by inserting after paragraph (f) the following paragraph —

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(g) in any period of 5 years a dose equivalent exceeding 100 millisieverts to the whole body.

By His Excellency's Command,

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.