New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

RADIATION CONTROL REGULATION 2003 - REG 30

30 Appointment of radiation safety officers and committees

(1) The Director-General may, by notice in writing served on an employer:

(a) direct the employer to appoint a radiation safety officer or a radiation safety committee, or both, for a workplace, and

(b) in the case of a direction to appoint a radiation safety officer, determine the qualifications to be held by a person so appointed, and

(c) direct what functions are to be exercised by a radiation safety officer or radiation safety committee so appointed.

(2) An employer:

(a) must not fail to appoint a radiation safety officer or a radiation safety committee, or both, in accordance with a direction under this clause, and

(b) must not allow the functions of the radiation safety officer or radiation safety committee to be exercised otherwise than by the officer or the committee, as the case requires.

Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units.