Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION ACT 1987 No. 3 of 1987 - SECT 25

25. (1) The Board shall appoint such members of the staff of the Organisation
as the Board determines to constitute a Nuclear Safety Bureau.

(2) The Nuclear Safety Bureau is responsible to the Minister for monitoring
and reviewing the safety of any nuclear plant operated by the Organisation.

(3) The Nuclear Safety Bureau is responsible to the Board for the performance
of such other functions (if any) as are assigned to the Bureau by the Board.

(4) In this section-

"nuclear plant" means a nuclear reactor or assembly of fissionable material in
respect of which criticality is contemplated or possible;

"nuclear reactor" means a facility or device, including any plant associated
with such a facility or device, in which a controlled nuclear chain reaction
can be maintained without an additional source of neutrons.