Sch 4Exempt apparatus and sources

Schedule 4—Exempt apparatus and sources 1—Exemption of apparatus For the purposes of regulations 18(2)(c) and 21(1)(g), the following apparatus are specified: (a) television receivers; (b) visual display units; (c) cold cathode gas discharge tubes; (d) electron microscopes; (e) ionising radiation apparatus under development or in developmental testing (for the purposes of design or manufacture) in a facility or premises in relation to which a radiation management licence applies. 2—Exemption of radiation sources For the purposes of regulations 16(3)(b), 17(1), 19(2) and 20(a), the following radiation sources are specified: (a) Americium-241 sealed sources of activity up to 40 kBq used in domestic smoke alarms meeting the requirements of AS3786:1993; (b) depleted uranium in solid massive form that is used for ballast in aircraft and boats and ships; (c) depleted uranium that is completely contained within an appropriate metallic sheath, and is used as radiation shielding in a container for radioactive sources that complies with the requirements of the Transport Code; (d) a gaseous tritium light source that is solely used for safety purposes and includes less than 74 GBq of tritium; (e) a sealed radioactive source used for teaching the characteristics and properties of radiation or radiation sources and containing a radionuclide listed in column 1 of the table below, with an activity not greater than listed in column 2 of the table:

Radionuclide Activity (kBq) Cobalt-60 Strontium-90 Caesium-137 Radium-226 Americium-241 (f) a geological sample that contains radioactive material, if the sample— (i) emits radiation at a level not more than 5 micrograys an hour, measured at a distance of 10 cm from its surface; or (ii) is being used as a sample in teaching or for display as a geological specimen; (g) an electron capture detector or similar device used in gas chromatography containing a nickel-63 sealed source with activity not more than 750 MBq, or tritium source with activity not more than 20 GBq; (h) lighting products that include krypton-85.