New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a) Granting or providing for the exemption, whether absolutely or in such circumstances or subject to such conditions or in relation to such purpose or use as may be prescribed, of persons or things or classes of persons or things, specified or described in the regulations, from all or any of the provisions of sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of this Act and of any regulations made under this Act:
(b) Prescribing fees payable in respect of any application or licence under this Act:
(c) Regulating the procedure of the Council:
(d) Prescribing precautions to be taken to prevent injury from being caused by ionising radiations to the health of persons employed in places where radioactive materials are manufactured, produced, treated, stored, or used, or where irradiating apparatus is used, or of other persons likely to be exposed to harmful radiation:
(e) Prescribing precautions to be taken to prevent injury from being caused by or through the establishment or operation of nuclear reactors or of processing plants for nuclear fuel to the health of persons employed in connection therewith and of other persons:
(f) Making provision to ensure that waste products from any source whatever which contain any radioactive substance are disposed of safely:
(g) Imposing requirements as to the erection or structural alteration of buildings in which any radioactive material is manufactured, produced, treated, used, or stored, or where irradiating apparatus is used:
(h) Prescribing precautions to be taken to prevent injury from being caused by the transport of radioactive materials to the health of persons engaged therein and other persons, prescribing the method of packaging any radioactive material, and prescribing the marks to be placed on the vessels or receptacles or transport containers containing any radioactive material:
(i) Prescribing the method of treatment or disposal of any package, container, or vessel that has been used to convey, hold, or store any radioactive material:
(j) Prescribing the manner in which and the conditions subject to which radioactive materials may be stored or used:
(k) Prescribing the purposes for which any radioactive material or irradiating apparatus may be used:
(l) Prohibiting or restricting the use of any specified radioactive material or class of radioactive material:
(m) Prohibiting or restricting the use of any specified type of irradiating apparatus:
(n) Prescribing the maximum working hours of persons employed in the manufacture, production, treatment, storage, or use of radioactive materials or the use of irradiating apparatus, prescribing the minimum holidays to be taken by those persons, and providing for the medical examination of those persons:
(o) Regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any radioactive substance:
(p) Regulating the dispensing and compounding of any prescription containing any radioactive substance:
(q) Providing for the making of returns by owners of radioactive materials of the quantities and classes of radioactive materials held by them:
(r) Providing for the keeping by purchasers of radioactive materials of records specifying the purposes to which those materials are put, and for the inspection of those records, and for the making of returns of entries in those records:
(s) Providing for the keeping of records relating to the use of irradiating apparatus or radioactive materials for therapeutic purposes:
(t) Prescribing the forms of applications, licences, registers, notices, and other documents required for the purposes of this Act, or authorising the Director-General to prescribe such forms:
(u) Providing for the appointment of assessors and regulating the conduct of appeals under section 23 of this Act:
(v) Providing for such matters as are contemplated by or necessary for giving full effect to the provisions of this Act and for the due administration thereof.
Compare: 1949 No 42 s 29
Paragraph (a) was amended by section 3 Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1973 by inserting the expression “14”
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