The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

Presented and read a first time

Customs Amendment (Anti-Radioactive Waste Storage Dump) Bill 1999

No. , 1999

(Senator Brown)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Act 1901 to prohibit the importation of radioactive substances for storage in Australia

ISBN: 0642 419000

Contents

A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Act 1901 to prohibit the importation of radioactive substances for storage in Australia

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Customs Amendment (Anti-Radioactive Waste Storage Dump) Act 1999.

2 Commencement This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1--Amendment of the Customs Act 1901

1 At the end of section 50

Add:

(5) The regulations may not provide for the importation of any radioactive substance under any circumstances, or subject to any condition, restriction, licence or permission, if the primary purpose for importing the substance is to store it at a nuclear waste disposal facility in Australia.

(6) Subsection (5) does not apply to a radioactive substance that originated from a nuclear activity undertaken in Australia.

(7) In subsection (5):

radioactive substance means any radioactive material or substance, including radium, any radioactive isotope or any article containing any radioactive material or substance.