Bill
Australian Radioactive Waste Agency Bill 2022
lapsed, as at 2022-04-11. Industry, Science, Energy and Resources portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-02-16
- second reading — 2022-02-16
- other — 2022-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-02-16.
The bill would create a new federal agency to handle Australia's radioactive waste.
The agency would be a non-corporate Commonwealth entity with powers to manage waste and conduct activities at a designated facility.
The explanatory memorandum says the agency would also develop policy, give technical advice, educate the public, and keep a national inventory of radioactive material.
- Establishes the Australian Radioactive Waste Agency as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.
- Authorises the agency to manage controlled material and conduct activities under the National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012.
- Gives the agency functions including policy development, technical advice, public education, and maintaining a national inventory.
The agency and the Australian public, who benefit from nuclear medicine that produces the waste.
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