Div 2Radiation use licences

Division 2—Radiation use licences 17—Use or handling of radioactive material (1) For the purposes of section 23(2) of the Act, the following classes of substances are prescribed: (a) the substances that are listed, or are contained in a device that is listed, in Schedule 4 clause 2, in the specified circumstances; (b) a radioactive material that is a prescribed low risk radioactive material; (c) a radioactive material that is a surface contaminant on an object and the activity of a radioactive element or compound contained in the radioactive material does not exceed the prescribed amount under regulation 8(2). (2) For the purposes of section 23(2) of the Act, the following classes of persons are prescribed: (a) persons who use or handle a sealed radioactive source with an activity less than a Category 5 sealed radioactive source and who use or handle the source under the directions of a person who holds a radiation use licence authorising the use or handling (as the case requires); (b) persons enrolled in secondary or tertiary education where the use of radioactive material is required as part of the education curriculum and is under the supervision of a person holding a radiation use licence authorising the use; (c) persons who use or handle radioactive material in the course of undertaking a training program approved by the Minister relating to radiology, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine or radiation oncology where the use or handling is under the supervision of a person holding a radiation use licence authorising the use or handling (as the case requires); (d) persons who use a sealed radioactive source that is contained in a radiation gauge but do not use or handle the source at any time other than by operating the source control mechanism under the directions of a person who holds a radiation use licence authorising the use of the sealed radioactive source; (e) persons who handle a sealed radioactive source that is contained in a radiation gauge under the direct supervision of a person who holds a radiation use licence authorising the handling of the sealed radioactive source, and do not dismantle the source container nor handle the source while it is out of the source container; (f) persons who use or handle an unsealed radioactive material in type C premises and are working under the directions of a person who— (i) supervises the persons who work in those premises; and (ii) holds a radiation use licence entitling the holder to use or handle the radioactive materials used or handled in those premises in the manner in which they are used or handled in those premises; (g) persons, being members of the public, who handle any radioactive material that is packaged for transport in accordance with Part 8; (h) persons who, being members of the nursing staff employed in a hospital ward, nursing home or treatment facility in which patients are treated by the use of a radioactive material, are supervised by the worker managing the radiation safety aspects of the treatment who holds a radiation use licence entitling the holder to use or handle such a radioactive material in that ward, nursing home or treatment facility (as the case requires); (i) persons who are patients undergoing diagnosis or treatment by use of a radioactive material; (j) persons who use, for the purpose of industrial radiography, a sealed radioactive source that is located in a fully protected enclosure and who use that source under the supervision of a person who holds a radiation use licence authorising the use of the sealed radioactive source; (k) persons who use or handle any naturally occurring radioactive material in the course of developmental testing operations or operations for or in relation to mining or mineral processing authorised by a radiation management licence; (l) any other class of persons determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette. category 5 sealed radioactive source means a sealed radioactive source categorised as Category 5 under the Code of Practice for the Security of Radioactive Sources. 18—Operation of radiation apparatus (1) For the purposes of section 24(2) of the Act, the following classes of persons are prescribed: (a) persons who operate ionising radiation apparatus according to the instructions of a veterinary surgeon who— (i) holds a radiation use licence in respect of the apparatus; and (ii) is present in the room or other place in which the apparatus is located; and (iii) is not able to operate the apparatus themself by reason of the nature of the radiological examination being carried out; (b) persons enrolled in secondary or tertiary education where the operation of ionising radiation apparatus is required as part of the education curriculum and is under the supervision of a person holding a radiation use licence authorising the operation; (c) persons who operate ionising radiation apparatus in the course of undertaking a training program approved by the Minister relating to radiology, radiation therapy, nuclear medicine or radiation oncology where the operation is under the supervision of a person holding a radiation use licence authorising the operation; (d) persons who operate any enclosed X-ray analysis apparatus, but only when the interlocked barriers are in place and who operate such apparatus under the directions of a person who holds a radiation use licence in respect of the apparatus; (e) persons who operate for the purposes of industrial radiography an ionising radiation apparatus that is located in a fully protected enclosure, and who operate that apparatus under the directions of a person who holds a radiation use licence in respect of the apparatus; (f) persons undergoing training in the operation of portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy instruments where the operation is under the supervision of a person holding a radiation use licence authorising the operation; (g) any other class of persons determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette. (2) For the purposes of subsection 24(2) of the Act, the following classes of apparatus are prescribed: (a) ionising radiation apparatus that produces ionising radiation incidental to its function (including electron microscopes and apparatus containing a cathode ray tube or an electronic valve) if the apparatus does not, in normal operating conditions, cause an equivalent dose rate exceeding 1 µSv/h at a distance of 0.1m from any accessible surface of the apparatus; (b) closed cabinet X-ray equipment for the examination of letters, packages, baggage, freight and other articles that has been designed and constructed so as to prevent a person entering the cabinet while the equipment is being put to its normal use; (c) apparatus listed in Schedule 4 clause 1; (d) any other class of apparatus determined by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.