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 and Radiation Protection and Control Regulations 2022.
| Reference number | Act/Regulation/ Code |
Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
