1Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Regulations

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Statutory Rules 1981 No. 3461

Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978.

Dated 26 November 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

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Minister of State for Home Affairs and Environment

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Regulations.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Act 1978.

Radioactive substances

3. For the purposes of the definition of “prescribed substance” in section 4 of the Act, a substance the radioactivity of which exceeds 74,000 becquerels per kilogram of the substance, being a substance other than uranium, thorium, or an element having an atomic number greater than 92, is declared to be a radioactive substance.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 December 1981.

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