139Regulations

139 Regulations

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—

(a) the matters or things contained in the NDRP;

(b) the prescription of a facility as a radiation facility;

(c) requiring authority holders and persons who were authority holders to keep information or records specified by the regulations—

(i) in a specified manner or form specified by the regulations; and

(ii) for periods of time specified by the regulations;

(d) requiring authority holders and persons who were authority holders to give information or records specified by the regulations to the Secretary;

S. 139(1)(da) inserted by No. 59/2013 s. 24.

(da) requiring a management licence holder to keep records of—

(i) the names of the persons whose identity the licence holder has verified for the purpose of section 23A, 23B or 23C; and

(ii) the identification documents used for that purpose;

(e) radiation dose limits that may be received by a person;

(f) regulating the transportation and storage of radiation sources;

(g) regulating the securing and sealing of radiation sources;

(h) regulating the disposal and destruction of radiation sources;

(i) regulating the personal monitoring of persons exposed or likely to be exposed to radiation emitted from a radiation source;

(j) regulating the supply and use of personal monitoring devices;

(k) giving the Secretary access to records relating to personal monitoring or exposure to radiation emitted from a radiation source;

(l) the examination, testing, analysis, maintenance, repair and labelling of radiation sources;

(m) regulating the supply of protective clothing or equipment or the use of protective clothing or equipment in the vicinity of a radiation source;

(n) regulating the use of radiation sources or exposure to radiation emitted from radiation sources;

(o) prescribing action to be taken in circumstances where—

(i) a person has been subject to an excessive dose of radiation emitted from a radiation source;

(ii) there has been contamination of a place by the emission of radiation from a radiation source;

(p) generally protecting persons from the effects caused by or relating to radiation emitted from a radiation source, including—

(i) safeguarding the health of persons at a place, or in the vicinity of a place, where there is a radiation source;

(ii) requiring special facilities, equipment and radiation safety precautions to be adopted or implemented at a place where there is a radiation source;