Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Code of Practice" means the Code of practice for the near-surface disposal of radioactive waste in Australia (1992) approved by the National Health and Medical Research Council and published by the Australian Government Publishing Service as Radiation Health Series No. 35 (ISBN 0 644 28673 3).
"executive officer", of a body corporate, means a person who is concerned with, or takes part in, the management of the body corporate, (whether or not the person is a director or the person's position is given the name of executive officer), and includes a constituent member of a body corporate incorporated for a public purpose by a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory.
"nuclear plant" means a nuclear reactor, radioisotope enrichment plant involved in the enrichment of uranium or plutonium, nuclear reprocessing plant or nuclear weapons facility, whether or not it is a place to which this Act applies.
"nuclear waste" means:
(a) Category A, B, C or S radioactive waste within the meaning of the Code of Practice; or
(b) waste material that contains radioactive material derived from:
(i) the operation or decommissioning of a nuclear plant;
(ii) the testing, use or decommissioning of nuclear weapons; or
(iii) the conditioning or reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.
"nuclear waste storage facility" means an installation for the storage or disposal of nuclear waste.
"radioactive material" means any material that spontaneously emits ionising radiation as a consequence of nuclear transformation .