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COMMONWEALTH RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT 2005 No. 145, 2005 - SECT 3

Definitions
In this Act:

"Aboriginal land "means Aboriginal land within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 .

"Commonwealth contractor "means:

(a) a person who is a party to a contract with the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth entity; or
(b) a person who is a subcontractor for a contract with the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth entity.

"Commonwealth entity "means:

(a) a body corporate established for a public purpose by or under an Act; or
(b) a company in which a controlling interest is held by any one of the following persons, or any 2 or more of the following persons together:
(i) the Commonwealth;
(ii) a body covered by paragraph (a).

"controlled material" means controlled material within the meaning of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Act 1998 , but does not include high level radioactive material or spent nuclear fuel.

"facility" means a facility for the management of controlled material generated, possessed or controlled by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth entity.

"high level radioactive material "means material which has a thermal energy output of at least 2 kilowatts per cubic metre.

"Land Council" means a Land Council within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 .

"site" means:

(a) a site specified in Schedule 1; or
(b) a site approved by the Minister under Part 1A.

"spent nuclear fuel "means material that:

(a) is or was capable of producing energy by a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission; and
(b) has been irradiated in, and permanently removed from, a nuclear reactor (which is a structure containing material to which paragraph (a) applies in such an arrangement that a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission can occur in the structure without an additional source of neutrons).

"subcontractor", for a contract, means a person who is a party to:

(a) a contract with a Commonwealth contractor (within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition of Commonwealth contractor ); or
(b) a contract with another subcontractor (under a previous application of this definition).

"traditional Aboriginal owners" means traditional Aboriginal owners within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 .



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