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South Australia
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition)
Act 2000 and to make a related amendment to the Radiation Protection
and Control Act 1982.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Nuclear Waste Storage Facility
(Prohibition) Act 2000
4 Amendment of long
title
5 Amendment of section 1—Short title
6 Amendment of section
3—Objects of Act
7 Amendment of section
4—Interpretation
8 Amendment of section 8—Prohibition against
construction or operation of nuclear facility
9 Amendment of section
11—Powers of public authority
10 Amendment of section 12—Orders
by court against offenders
11 Amendment of section 13—No public money
to be used to encourage or finance construction or operation of nuclear
facility
12 Amendment of section 14—Public inquiry into environmental
and socio-economic impact of nuclear facility
Schedule 1—Related amendment of Radiation
Protection and Control Act 1982
1 Repeal of section
27
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Nuclear Waste Storage Facility
(Prohibition) (Prohibition of Other Nuclear Facilities) Amendment
Act 2007.
This Act will come into operation 1 month after the day on which it is
assented to by the Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Nuclear Waste Storage Facility (Prohibition)
Act 2000
Long title—delete "waste storage"
5—Amendment of
section 1—Short title
Delete "Waste Storage"
6—Amendment of
section 3—Objects of Act
Delete "waste storage"
7—Amendment of
section 4—Interpretation
(1) Section 4—after the definition of Code of Practice
insert:
enrichment, in relation to nuclear material, means any
process by which the proportion of an isotope is increased in relation to the
natural abundance of the isotope;
(2) Section 4—after the definition of ionizing
radiation insert:
nuclear facility means—
(a) a facility for the conversion of uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride
or any other chemical in order to enable its enrichment; or
(b) an isotope separation plant or other facility for the enrichment of
nuclear material; or
(c) a fabrication plant or other facility for transforming nuclear
material into a form suitable for use as fuel in a nuclear reactor; or
(d) a nuclear reactor, whether or not designed for the purpose of
generating electricity; or
(e) a reprocessing plant or other facility for the chemical separation of
fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor; or
(f) a radioisotope production facility; or
(g) a nuclear weapons facility; or
(h) a nuclear waste storage facility;
nuclear fuel cycle includes any process or step in the
utilisation of material capable of undergoing nuclear fission, including its
ultimate disposal;
nuclear material means a radioactive substance associated
with the nuclear fuel cycle, including radioactive waste material;
nuclear reactor means a device designed to produce controlled
nuclear fission;
8—Amendment of
section 8—Prohibition against construction or operation of nuclear
facility
Section 8—delete "waste storage"
9—Amendment of
section 11—Powers of public authority
Section 11(a)—delete "waste storage"
10—Amendment of
section 12—Orders by court against offenders
Section 12(1)(a)(i)—delete "waste storage"
11—Amendment of
section 13—No public money to be used to encourage or finance construction
or operation of nuclear facility
Section 13—delete "waste storage"
12—Amendment of
section 14—Public inquiry into environmental and socio-economic impact of
nuclear facility
Section 14—delete "waste storage"
Schedule 1—Related
amendment of Radiation Protection and Control
Act 1982
Section 27—delete the section