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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
THE
SENATE
Presented and read a first
time
Customs
Amendment (Anti-Radioactive Waste Storage Dump) Bill
1999
No. ,
1999
(Senator Brown)
A
Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Act 1901 to prohibit the importation
of radioactive substances for storage in Australia
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Act 1901 to
prohibit the importation of radioactive substances for storage in
Australia
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Customs Amendment (Anti-Radioactive Waste
Storage Dump) Act 1999.
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any
other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its
terms.
1 At the end of section 50
Add:
(5) The regulations may not provide for the importation of any radioactive
substance under any circumstances, or subject to any condition, restriction,
licence or permission, if the primary purpose for importing the substance is to
store it at a nuclear waste disposal facility in Australia.
(6) Subsection (5) does not apply to a radioactive substance that
originated from a nuclear activity undertaken in Australia.
(7) In subsection (5):
radioactive substance means any radioactive material or
substance, including radium, any radioactive isotope or any article containing
any radioactive material or substance.