Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ATOMIC ENERGY AMENDMENT ACT (NO.2) 1980 No. 119 of 1980 - SECT 5

5. Section 41 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub- section
(2) the following sub-sections:



"(2AA) Operations carried on on the Ranger Project Area by the person or
persons specified in an authority under this section (being an authority,
whether granted before or after the commencement of this sub-section, that
authorizes, or purports to authorize, that person, or those persons as joint
venturers, to carry on, on behalf of the Commonwealth, operations in
accordance with this section on the Ranger Project Area subject to conditions
and restrictions specified in the authority) shall, if carried on as provided
by the authority and in accordance with the Ranger Project agreement, be
deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be carried on on behalf of the
Commonwealth and to be authorized by the authority.



"(2AB) The reference in sub-section (2AA) to the Ranger Project agreement
shall be construed as a reference to the agreement known as the Ranger Uranium
Project Government Agreement that was made on 9 January 1979 between the
Commonwealth, Peko-Wallsend Operations Ltd., Electrolytic Zinc Company of
Australasia Limited and the Commission or, if that agreement is amended, that
agreement as amended.".
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