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Health (Radiation Safety) (Fees) Regulations 2005

S.R. No. 116/2005

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1.     Objective

2.     Authorising provision

3.Licence fees

4.     Registration fees

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STATUTORY RULES 2005

S.R. No. 116/2005

Health Act 1958

Health (Radiation Safety) (Fees) Regulations 2005

The Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's Deputy with the advice of the Executive Council makes the following Regulations:

Dated: 20 September 2005

Responsible Minister:

BRONWYN PIKE
Minister for Health

RUTH LEACH

Clerk of the Executive Council

1.  Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Health (Radiation Safety) Regulations 1994 to convert prescribed fees for licences and registration from monetary amounts to fee units to enable the automatic indexation of those fees under the Monetary Units Act 2004.

2.  Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 108AJ of the Health Act 1958.

3.Licence fees

In regulation 13 of the Health (Radiation Safety) Regulations 1994[1]—

(a)in sub-regulation (1), for "$104" substitute "10×1 fee units";

(b)in sub-regulation (2), for "$339" substitute "33×1 fee units".

4.  Registration fees

In regulation 17 of the Health (Radiation Safety) Regulations 1994, for the Table substitute—

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Fee Category	Equipment Type	Registration Fee	Temporary Registration Fee
Category 1 (Irradiating apparatus)	Dental X-ray units, orthopantomographic (OPG) X-ray units, cephalometric X-ray units, mobile medical X-ray units, veterinary X-ray units, X-ray gauges, other irradiating apparatus not specified in this Table.	10×8 fee units	5×3 fee units
Category 2 (Irradiating apparatus)	Industrial radiography X-ray units, fixed medical X-ray units, mammography X-ray units, X-ray analysis units, chiropractic X‑ray units, mobile image intensifiers, medical therapy simulators, X-ray therapy units not operable above 500 kilovolt peak (kVp).	26×7 fee units	13×3 fee units

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Fee Category	Equipment Type	Registration Fee	Temporary Registration Fee
Category 3 (Irradiating apparatus)	Accelerators used for university research, computer tomography units, medical cyclotrons, medical linear accelerators, industrial electron beam accelerators, X‑ray therapy units operable above 500 kilovolt peak (kVp).	54×3 fee units	26×8 fee units
Category 4 (Sealed radio-active source)	Static eliminators using Polonium-210, static meters using Tritium sources of activity up to 18×5 gigabecquerels, electron capture sources for gas chromatography, any sealed radio-active source with activity not greater than 40 megabecquerels.	4×7 fee units	2×4 fee units
Category 5 (Sealed radio-active source)	Calibration sources, radiation gauges with activity not greater than 40 gigabecquerels, portable nuclear moisture/density meters, other sealed radio-active sources not specified in this Table.	10×8 fee units	5×3 fee units

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Fee Category	Equipment Type	Registration Fee	Temporary Registration Fee
Category 6 (Sealed radio-active source)	Industrial radiography sources, medical therapy sources (dermatology and ophthalmology), medical therapy sources with activity less than 400 gigabecquerels, borehole logging sources, veterinary radiotherapy sources, radiation gauges with activity greater than 40 gigabecquerels.	26×7 fee units	13×3 fee units
Category 7 (Sealed radio-active source)	Self-shielded laboratory irradiators, irradiation cell sources for sterilization purposes, research irradiation cell sources, medical therapy sources of activity not less than 400 gigabecquerels.	54×3 fee units	26×8 fee units

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[1]

Reg. 3: S.R. No. 165/1994.  Reprint No. 1 as at 6 November 1997.  Reprinted to S.R. No. 14/1997.  Subsequently amended by

S.R. Nos 81/2002 and 65/2003.

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Fee Units

These Regulations provide for fees by reference to fee units established under the Monetary Units Act 2004.

The amount of the fee is to be calculated, in accordance with section 7 of that Act, by multiplying the number of fee units applicable by the value of a fee unit.

The value of a fee unit for the financial year commencing 1 July 2005, is $10.49.  The amount of the calculated fee may be rounded to the nearest 10 cents.

The value of a fee unit for future financial years is to be fixed by the Treasurer under section 5 of the Monetary Units Act 2004.  The value of a fee unit for a financial year must be published in the Government Gazette and a Victorian newspaper before 1 June in the preceding financial year.