New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
(1) In any case where the Minister, upon application being made to him in writing, is satisfied that strict compliance with these regulations is not possible, or would involve expenditure or hardship out of proportion to the degree of freedom from radiation hazard to be achieved by such compliance, he may, on the recommendation of the Council, exempt any particular person from compliance with specified provisions of these regulations, or may modify the requirements of any such specified provision if he is satisfied that adequate freedom from radiation hazards can, and will, otherwise be secured.
(2) Any exemption or modification granted by the Minister in accordance with subclause (1) may be revoked by him at any time on the advice of the Council that the grounds on which the exemption or modification was granted no longer exist, or no longer warrant the granting of the exemption or modification.
(3) Without restricting subclause (1), the Minister may from time to time, on the recommendation of the Council given on the ground that the form and manner of use of the article to which the recommendation relates sufficiently limits any radiation hazard resulting from that use, by notice in the Gazette, exempt from all or any of the provisions of sections 12 and 13(1) of the Act and from all or any of the provisions of these regulations, either absolutely or subject to such conditions, or in relation to such purpose or use, as may be stated in the notice, any specified article or class of article falling within any of the following descriptions:
(a) instruments for measuring or detecting materials, or environmental and other physical conditions, containing radioactive material as a source of ionisation or radiation necessary for their operation:
(b) devices containing radioactive material for the purpose of ionising a gas:
(c) sealed radioactive materials prepared for purposes of instruction or demonstration:
(d) devices for the production of light that contain radioactive material as a source of energy.
(4) The minister may in like manner, on the recommendation of the Council, revoke any such notice.
