NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SECT 4A Supplementary Agency Agreements

NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION (SAFEGUARDS) ACT 1987 - SECT 4A

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, Supplementary Agency Agreement means an IAEA agreement that is additional to the Agency Agreement, and includes such an IAEA agreement as amended from time to time.

  (2)   An IAEA agreement, or an amendment of an IAEA agreement, does not have effect for the purposes of this Act unless the agreement or amendment, as the case may be, is declared by the regulations to have effect for the purposes of this Act.

  (3)   An IAEA agreement, or an amendment of an IAEA agreement, takes effect for the purposes of this Act from:

  (a)   the day on which the regulations referred to in subsection   ( 2) take effect; or

  (b)   such later day as is specified in those regulations.

  (4)   In this section:

"IAEA agreement" means an agreement between Australia and the International Atomic Energy Agency, but does not include:

  (a)   the Agency Agreement; or

  (b)   an agreement that amends the Agency Agreement.