New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

15 Disposal of containers

• (1) No person shall—

  • (a) dispose of any package or container that has contained a radioactive material otherwise than in accordance with regulation 14; or

  • (b) use that package or container for any purpose other than for containing a radioactive material,—

  unless the activity of radioactive material remaining in that package or container does not exceed 0.1 of the activity specified in regulation 4(1)(a) and unless all warning and other labels indicating that the package or container contains a radioactive material have been effectively obliterated.

  (2) Nothing in subclause (1) shall affect or derogate from any provision of the Food and Drug Act 1969 or of any regulation made thereunder.