Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY ACT 1998 - SECT 30

  (1)   A controlled person must not do any of the following:

  (a)   prepare a site for a controlled facility;

  (b)   construct a controlled facility;

  (c)   have possession or control of a controlled facility;

  (d)   operate a controlled facility;

  (e)   de - commission, dispose of or abandon a controlled facility;

  (ea)   remediate a prescribed legacy site;

unless:

  (f)   the person is authorised to do so by a facility licence; or

  (g)   the person is exempted in relation to the conduct concerned by regulations made for the purposes of this section.

Penalty:   2,000 penalty units.

  (2)   The holder of a facility licence must comply with the conditions of the licence.

Penalty:   2,000 penalty units, or such lower amount as is prescribed by the regulations.

  (3)   A person covered by a facility licence must comply with the conditions of the licence that are applicable to the person.