Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1977
Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1977
Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1977
Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1977
Public Act |
1977 No 171 |
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Date of assent |
23 December 1977 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Radiation Protection Act 1965
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Radiation Protection Amendment Act 1977, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Radiation Protection Act 1965 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Radiation Protection Advisory Council
(1)
Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of the term “Council”
, and substituting the following definition:
“‘Council’ means the Radiation Protection Advisory Council constituted under this Act:”.
(2)
Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection (2) the words “Radiological Advisory Council”
, and substituting the words “Radiation Protection Advisory Council”
.
(3)
The principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (1) of section 5 and from the heading to that section and from the cross heading above that section the words “Radiological Advisory Council”
, and substituting in each case the words “Radiation Protection Advisory Council”
.
3 Chairman of Council
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 6, and substituting the following section:
“6
“(1)
The Council, at its first meeting held after the 1st day of January 1978, and at its first meeting held after the first day of January in each year thereafter, shall appoint one of its members to be the Chairman of the Council. Any such member may from time to time be reappointed as Chairman of the Council.
“(2)
The Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the Council at which he is present.
“(3)
The Chairman appointed in each year shall hold office until his successor is appointed, or until he sooner ceases to be a member of the Council.
“(4)
If the Chairman ceases to be a member of the Council before the expiration of the period for which he has been appointed as Chairman thereof, the Council shall appoint some other member in his stead to be Chairman until the next occasion on which a Chairman is appointed under subsection (1) of this section.
“(5)
If at any meeting of the Council the Chairman for the time being is not present or there is no Chairman of the Council, the members present shall appoint one of their number to preside at that meeting. The person so appointed shall have and may exercise all the powers and functions of the Chairman for the purposes of that meeting.
“(6)
The Chairman shall have power to act in all matters, including the appointment of committees under section 8 of this Act, on behalf of the Council when the Council is not meeting:
“Provided that, in any matter that by this Act requires a decision of the Council, he shall so act only if he reasonably considers an urgent decision to be necessary, and he shall first consult at least one other member of the Council, and he shall report to the next meeting of the Council the action that he has taken.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Health.