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"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.
(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 that is of domestic origin, but does not include high level radioactive material or spent nuclear fuel. For this purpose, controlled material is of domestic origin if it has been used in Australia, generated by activities in Australia, or sent to Australia under contractual arrangements relating to the conditioning or reprocessing of ANSTO spent nuclear fuel (within the meaning of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Act 1987 ).
"facility" means a facility for the management of controlled material generated, possessed or controlled by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth entity.
"general nomination start time" means the time at which a declaration under section 6 takes effect.
"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 .
"Land Trust" means a Land Trust within the meaning of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 .
"nominator" of land means the following:
(a) a Land Council that nominated the land as a potential site under subsection 5(1);
(b) a person who nominated the land as a potential site under subsection 7(2) or (3).
"selected site" means the site, or the specified part of a site, in relation to which a declaration by the Minister under subsection 14(2) is in effect.
"site" means a site approved by the Minister under section 9.
"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).
"statutory authority" , in relation to the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, means any authority or body (including a corporation sole) established by a law of the Commonwealth, the State or Territory other than a general law allowing incorporation as a company or body corporate.
"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 .