Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00716:section:13:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00716
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 13 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 13353–16189

13  Definitions
  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
annual charge means charge imposed by the Licence Charges Act.
CEO or Chief Executive Officer means the CEO referred to in section 14.
Commonwealth contractor means a person (other than a Commonwealth entity) who is a party to a contract with a Commonwealth entity.
Note: Section 11 limits the circumstances in which the provisions of this Act apply to Commonwealth contractors.
Commonwealth entity means any of the following:
 (a) the Commonwealth;
 (b) a body corporate established for a public purpose by or under an Act;
 (c) a company in which a controlling interest is held by any one of the following persons, or by 2 or more of the following persons together:
 (i) the Commonwealth;
 (ii) a body covered by paragraph (b);
 (d) an employee of a person or body covered by any of the above paragraphs.
controlled apparatus means any of the following:
 (a) an apparatus that produces ionizing radiation when energised or that would, if assembled or repaired, be capable of producing ionizing radiation when energised;
 (b) an apparatus that produces ionizing radiation because it contains radioactive material;
 (c) an apparatus prescribed by the regulations that produces harmful non‑ionizing radiation when energised.
controlled facility means:
 (a) a nuclear installation; or
 (b) a prescribed radiation facility; or
 (c) a prescribed legacy site.
controlled material means any natural or artificial material, whether in solid or liquid form, or in the form of a gas or vapour, which emits ionizing radiation spontaneously.
controlled person means any of the following:
 (a) a Commonwealth entity;
 (b) a Commonwealth contractor;
 (c) a person in the capacity of an employee of a Commonwealth contractor;
 (d) a person in a prescribed Commonwealth place.
Council means the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council established by section 19.
CSC (short for Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation) has the same meaning as in the Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011.
deal with, in relation to a controlled apparatus or controlled material, means any of the following:
 (a) possess, or have control of, the apparatus or material;
 (b) use or operate the apparatus, or use the material;
 (c) dispose of the apparatus or material.
evidential material means any of the following:
 (a) any thing with respect to which an offence against this Act or the regulations has been committed or is suspected, on reasonable grounds, to have been committed;
 (b) any thing as to which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that it will afford evidence as to the commission of any such offence;
 (c) any thing as to which there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that it is intended to be used for the purpose of committing any such