Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall, before commencing to carry out a significant modification of a nuclear facility, give notice in writing to the Director of the proposed modification.
(2) Where a person commences to carry out a significant modification of a nuclear facility and at the time when the modification commences:
(a) the person:
(i) has not given the Director notice, in accordance with subsection (1), of the proposed modification; or
(ii) has not provided to the Director such information in relation to the design for the proposed modification as the Director, in writing, requests; or
(b) the prescribed period in relation to the modification has not elapsed since the information referred to in subparagraph (a)(ii) was provided to the Director;
the person commits an offence against this subsection, punishable upon conviction by imprisonment for not more than 2 years.
(3) Regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b):
(a) may prescribe different periods in relation to different classes of modification; and
(b) shall not prescribe a period greater than 6 months.
(4) For the purposes of this section, a modification of a nuclear facility shall be taken to be a significant modification of the facility if and only if the modification affects the implementation of the Australian safeguards system in relation to nuclear material or associated items located, or to be located, at the facility.