South Australian Numbered Regulations South Australian Numbered RegulationsSchedule 4—Exempt apparatus and sources
For the purposes of regulations 18(2)(c)
and 21(1)(g)
, the following apparatus are specified:
(a) television receivers;
(b) visual display units;
(c) cold cathode gas discharge tubes;
(d) electron microscopes;
(e) ionising radiation apparatus under development or in developmental testing (for the purposes of design or manufacture) in a facility or premises in relation to which a radiation management licence applies.
2—Exemption of radiation sources
For the purposes of regulations 16(3)(b)
, 17(1)
, 19(2)
and 20(a)
, the following radiation sources are specified:
(a) Americium-241 sealed sources of activity up to 40 kBq used in domestic smoke alarms meeting the requirements of AS3786:1993;
(b) depleted uranium in solid massive form that is used for ballast in aircraft and boats and ships;
(c) depleted uranium that is completely contained within an appropriate metallic sheath, and is used as radiation shielding in a container for radioactive sources that complies with the requirements of the Transport Code;
(d) a gaseous tritium light source that is solely used for safety purposes and includes less than 74 GBq of tritium;
(e) a sealed radioactive source used for teaching the characteristics and properties of radiation or radiation sources and containing a radionuclide listed in column 1 of the table below, with an activity not greater than listed in column 2 of the table:
|
Radionuclide |
Activity (kBq) |
|
Cobalt-60 |
200 |
|
Strontium-90 |
80 |
|
Caesium-137 |
200 |
|
Radium-226 |
20 |
|
Americium-241 |
40 |
(f) a geological sample that contains radioactive material, if the sample—
(i) emits radiation at a level not more than 5 micrograys an hour, measured at a distance of 10 cm from its surface; or
(ii) is being used as a sample in teaching or for display as a geological specimen;
(g) an electron capture detector or similar device used in gas chromatography containing a nickel-63 sealed source with activity not more than 750 MBq, or tritium source with activity not more than 20 GBq;
(h) lighting products that include krypton-85.