NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION (PROHIBITION) ACT 1999 - SECT 3

NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION (PROHIBITION) ACT 1999 - SECT 3

3 .         Interpretation

        (1)         In this Act unless otherwise provided —

        nuclear plant means a nuclear reactor, a radioisotope enrichment plant involved in the enrichment of uranium or plutonium, a nuclear reprocessing plant or a nuclear weapons facility, whether or not it is in a place to which this Act applies;

        nuclear waste means material —

            (a)         that is or contains a radioactive substance; and

            (b)         that —

                  (i)         is waste of a nuclear plant; or

                  (ii)         results from the testing, use or decommissioning of nuclear weapons,

        whether or not that material has been conditioned or reprocessed;

        nuclear waste storage facility means any installation for the storage or disposal of any nuclear waste;

        person includes, without limiting the Interpretation Act 1984 , the Crown in all its capacities;

        public money and statutory authority money have the meanings given to them by section 3 of the Financial Management Act 2006 ;

        radioactive substance has the meaning given to it by section 4 of the Radiation Safety Act 1975.

        (2)         For the purposes of the definition of “nuclear waste”, waste of a nuclear plant does not include waste that results from the use of the products of a nuclear plant.

        (3)         For the purposes of this Act, a person transports nuclear waste in the State whether or not the origin or destination of the waste is a place to which this Act applies.

        [Section 3 amended: No. 2 of 2004 s. 6; No. 77 of 2006 s. 17.]