Commonwealth Numbered Acts

ATOMIC ENERGY AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 31 of 1978 - SECT 9

9. Section 34 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Exercise of powers conferred by Part
''34. (1) The powers conferred by this Part (including the power to make
regulations for the purposes of section 38) shall, subject to sub-section (4)
of section 38, be exercised only-

   (a)  for purposes related to the defence of the Commonwealth;

   (b)  for purposes related to trade or commerce with other countries;

   (c)  for purposes related to trade or commerce among the States, between a
        State and a Territory or between 2 Territories;

   (d)  for purposes related to the external affairs of the Commonwealth,
        including, without limiting the generality of that expression, the
        carrying out by the Commonwealth of obligations under, or the exercise
        by the Commonwealth of rights under-

        (i)    the agreement between Australia and the International
               Atomic Energy Agency signed in Vienna on 10 July 1974, being
               the agreement known as the Agreement for the Application of
               Safeguards in connexion with the Treaty on the
               Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or, if that Agreement is
               amended, that Agreement as amended and in force from time to
               time; or

        (ii)   any other agreement between Australia and the International
               Atomic Energy Agency, another international organization or
               another country;

   (e)  in relation to substances situated in or recovered from, or things
        done or proposed to be done in or in connexion with, the Ranger
        Project Area;

   (f)  in relation to substances situated in or recovered from, or things
        done or proposed to be done in or in connexion with, a Terrirory; or

   (g)  for other purposes of the Commonwealth.

''(2) In this section, 'international organization' means an organization of
which 2 or more countries, or the Governments of 2 or more countries, are
members.''.