SCHEDULE 3 - Transitional and Savings Provisions Relating to Initial Members of Council and Initial Authorised Officers

Section 87(1)

1.    Interpretation

In this Schedule –

commencement day means the day on which this Act commences;

previous Council means the Radiation Advisory Council established under section 4 of the repealed Act;

repealed Act means the Radiation Control Act 1977 as in force immediately before the commencement day.

2.    Membership of Council

(1) Each person who was a member of the previous Council immediately before the commencement day, including the chairperson of the previous Council –

(a) becomes a member of the Council; and

(b) is taken to have been appointed under section 47(1)  –

(i) on the same conditions as his or her appointment as a member of the previous Council; and

(ii) for a term ending when his or her appointment as a member would have ended had not the repealed Act been repealed, unless that term is otherwise ended under and in accordance with this Act.

(2) The person who was the chairperson of the previous Council immediately before the commencement day becomes the chairperson of the Council and is taken to have been appointed as chairperson of the Council under section 47(2) .

(3) Each person who, immediately before the commencement day, held an appointment as a deputy of a member of the previous Council, including the chairperson of the previous Council, is taken to have been appointed under section 50 to act as a member of the Council on the same terms and conditions as his or her appointment as a deputy of a member of the previous Council.

3.    Initial authorised officers

A person who was an authorized officer under the repealed Act immediately before the commencement day is taken to have been appointed as an authorised officer under section 53(1) or (2) or authorised to perform the functions and exercise the powers of an authorised officer under section 53(3) , as the case requires –

(a) on the same conditions as his or her appointment or authorization under the repealed Act; and

(b) for a term ending when his or her appointment or authorization under the repealed Act would have ended had not the repealed Act been repealed, unless that term is otherwise ended under and in accordance with this Act.