55Codes of practice

55 Codes of practice (1) The Chief Health Officer may, by notice in the Gazette, approve an instrument as in force at a particular time or from time to time as a code of practice relating to any of the following: (a) the manufacturing, selling, acquiring, possessing, using, storing, transporting, disposing of or otherwise dealing with a radiation source; (b) standards of compliance for: (i) a radiation source for carrying out a radiation practice; or (ii) a radiation place. (2) The notice must state where copies of the code of practice may be inspected during normal business hours. (3) The Chief Health Officer must ensure copies of the code of practice are available for inspection, free of charge, at the place stated in the notice. (4) A contravention of a code of practice does not of itself constitute an offence against this Act.