Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SECT 27

  (1)   A person shall, before:

  (a)   processing or storing exempt nuclear material together with nuclear material to which Part   II applies; or

  (b)   returning exempt nuclear material to use in nuclear activities;

give notice in writing to the Minister of the proposed processing, storage or return to use in nuclear activities, as the case may be.

  (2)   Where:

  (a)   a person:

  (i)   processes or stores exempt nuclear material together with nuclear material to which Part   II applies; or

  (ii)   returns exempt nuclear material to use in nuclear activities; and

  (b)   the person has not given the Minister notice, in accordance with subsection   ( 1), of the proposed processing, storage or return to use in nuclear activities, as the case may be;

the person commits an offence against this section punishable, upon conviction, by imprisonment for not more than 2 years.

  (3)   In this section, exempt nuclear material means nuclear material that is, by virtue of a declaration under subsection   11(1), nuclear material to which Part   II does not apply.