Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ATOMIC ENERGY ACT 1953 - SECT 5

             (1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"atomic energy" means any form of energy released in the course of nuclear fission, nuclear fusion or other nuclear transmutation.

"Australia" includes the Territories.

"Commission" means the Australian Atomic Energy Commission that was constituted under this Act before the enactment of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Act 1987 .

"minerals" includes all substances obtained or obtainable from the earth by underground or surface working.

"prescribed substance" means:

                     (a)  uranium, thorium, an element having an atomic number greater than 92 or any other substance declared by the regulations to be capable of being used for the production of atomic energy or for research into matters connected with atomic energy; and

                     (b)  any derivative or compound of a substance to which paragraph (a) applies.

"Ranger Project Area" means the land described in Schedule 2 to the Aboriginal Land Rights ( Northern Territory ) Act 1976 .

             (4)  A reference in this Act to persons engaged in a joint venture shall be construed as a reference to persons carrying on or proposing to carry on any operations together, whether or not in partnership.