New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 1 February 2011
| Public Act | 1945 No 41 |
| Date of assent | 7 December 1945 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Energy.
3 Application of Act in Cook Islands
4 Notification of discovery of uranium
4A Grant of rewards in respect of the discovery of prescribed substances [Repealed]
4B Grants to assist persons prospecting for or producing prescribed substances [Repealed]
5 Minister may control mining or concentrating of prescribed substances
5A Application of Mining Act 1971 with respect to prescribed substances [Repealed]
5B Provisions where Crown party to instrument affecting mining privilege [Repealed]
6 Disposition of prescribed substances
7 As to importation of prescribed substances
8 Uranium in its natural condition to be property of Crown [Repealed]
9 No compensation for uranium in natural condition [Repealed]
10 Minister may mine for prescribed substances [Repealed]
11 Disposal of land acquired but no longer required for purposes of this Act [Repealed]
12 No person to possess fissionable substances, etc, without consent
13 Universities and schools empowered to carry on certain experimental work
An Act to make provision for the control in New Zealand of the means of producing atomic energy and for that purpose to provide for the control of the mining and treatment of the ores of uranium and other elements which may be used for the production of atomic energy, and to provide for the vesting of such substances in the Crown
