Gazette notices and exemptions
Listed below are the notices and exemptions published in the South Australian Government Gazette which relate to the Radiation Protection and Control Act 2021.
Reference number | Act/Regulation/ Code |
Title | Summary |
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Notice Reg 106 | Reg 106 | Exposure authorisation | Specifies the classes of health practitioners who may authorise exposure to ionising radiation for purposes of diagnosis or treatment. |
RPC202302–02 | Act s22 | Radiation management licence for transport | Details the circumstances in which a radiation management licence for transport is not required. |
RPC202302–03 | Act s22 | Registration applications made under Radiation Protection and Control Act (RPC) 1982 | Exempts from the requirement to hold a 'Licence to Possess RML' for those owners who submitted a valid application under the RPC Act 1982. |
RPC202302–06 | Reg 106(6)(b) | Exposure authorisation: emergency situations | Exempt persons authorising exposures in an emergency situation from the requirement to certify the authorisation in writing prior to the exposure being performed. |
RPC202312–01 | Act s22 | Huey Helicopter | Exempts Port Pirie RSL from requirement to hold a radiation management licence for possession for the museum displayed Huey Helicopter. |
RPC202312–02 | Reg 65 | Disposal of smoke alarms | Exempts the public from the requirement to apply to dispose of domestic smoke alarms. |
RPC202312–03 | Security of Radioactive Sources (2019) | Accredited assessor for security & transport security plans | Exempt persons dealing with a security enhanced radioactive source from having security or transport security plans endorsed by an accredited assessor. |
RPC202312–04 | Security of Radioactive Sources (2019) | Security background checks for security enhanced sources | Exempt persons dealing with a security enhanced radioactive source from the requirement to have ASIO and AFP background checks. |
RPC202312–05 | Reg 89 | Approved personal radiation monitoring devices (PRMDs) | List of all currently EPA approved PRMDs. |
RPC202312–05 | Act s23 | Urologists: Licence to handle I–125 | Exempts urologists from the requirement to be licenced to use or handle I–125 seeds when supervised by a licenced oncologist or physicist. |
RPC202401–01 | Act s23 | Vet assistants: Licence to handle I–131 | Exempts vet assistants from the requirement to be licenced to use or handle I–131 capsules when supervised by a licenced veterinarian. |
RPC202401–02 | Act s26 | Low activity sealed sources | Prescribed sealed sources which are exempt from the requirement to be registered. |
RPC202401–03 | Act s27 | X–ray apparatus: Interstate trial, demonstration and training | Exempts the need to register interstate apparatus when being brought into SA for the purposes of a trial, demonstration or training. |
RPC202401–04 | Reg 104 | Exposure authorisation: Federal Government health prevention programs | Allows for a exposure authorisations within the scope of Federal Government health prevention programs to be actioned by operators of diagnostic radiation apparatus. |
RPC202401–05 | Reg 104 | Exposure authorisation: BreastScreen | Allows for a exposure authorisations within the scope of the BreastScreen program to be actioned by operators of diagnostic radiation apparatus. |
RPC202401–06 | Reg 104 | Exposure authorisation: Osteopath | Allows for a limited scope of exposure authorisations from osteopaths to be actioned by operators of diagnostic radiation apparatus. |
RPC202401–07 | Reg 104 | Nurse initiated X–ray (NIXR) Program | Allows for a limited scope of exposure authorisations from Registered Nurses to be actioned by operators of diagnostic radiation apparatus. |
RPC202401–08 | X-ray Analysis Apparatus Code (1984) | Guideline for portable-XRF apparatus | Exempts operators of portable XRF apparatus from the requirements of the ARPANSA code give they comply with the EPA's pXRF Guideline (2023). |
RPC202402–01 | Act s24 | Apparatus gauge: Licence to operate | Exempts the operator of a fixed radiation gauge from the requirement to be licensed when supervised by a licensed individual. |
RPC202402–02 | Act s21, s23, s24 and s27 | Authorisations in an emergency management response role | Exempts persons involved in a emergency response role (as defined in the Emergency Management Act 2004) from the requirements to hold a radiation management licence for transport, individual use licence and/or apparatus registration. |
RPC202402–03 | Reg 106 | Exposure authorisation: Nurse practitioners | Establishes Nurse Practitioners as an class of health practitioners who may authorise exposure to ionising radiation for purposes of diagnosis or treatment, limited to plain diagnostic radiography only. |
RPC202402–04 | Act s26 | Devices containing multiple sealed sources | Exempts the need to register a sealed radioactive source which is contained in an instrument or device which contains another already registered sealed radioactive source. |
RPC202402–05 | Act s26 | Sealed radioactive source with half-life less than 2 years | Allows for the swap of 'new' sealed sources when that the 'old' source being replaced is a calibration source with a radionuclide half-life of less than two years. |
RPC202402–06 | COC–3 Medical, Vet and Chiro apparatus (2022) | Fluoro test protocol amendments | Owners of fluoro apparatus are not required to comply with the following:
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RPC202404–01 | Act s24 | X–Ray irradiator: Licence to operate | Establishes X–ray irradiator operators as a class of person who may use X–ray irradiators without a licence when under the directions of an appropriately licensed person. |