Consultation period is closed.Submissions closed at Wednesday, 10 April 2024 11:00pm.
The Director for Radiation Safety (the Director) has temporarily paused work on analysing the public submissions received during public consultation on the proposed revised Code of Practice for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material: ORS C6.
Once this work has been re-commissioned, information on the next steps will become available on this webpage.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
Background
The Radiation Safety Act 2016 (the Act) is administered by the Ministry of Health –Manatū Hauora (the Ministry).
Section 86(1) of the Act allows the Director for Radiation Safety (the Director) to issue codes of practice. This is for the purpose of specifying technical requirements.
Code of Practice for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material: ORS C6 (C6) first became effective as of 19 April 2019. Section 90(a) of the Act requires the Director to review a code of practice once every five years.
Section 89(2) of the Act requires that the Director consult with any person who the Director reasonably considers is likely to be affected by a proposed amendment or revocation to a code of practice.
The Director has produced a revised C6 following the statutorily required review of C6.
This document sets out for public consultation a revised C6.
The Director has temporarily paused the work on analysing the public submissions received during the consultation.
Next steps
Once the work to complete the analysis of public submissions is re-commissioned and finished, the Ministry intends to fully consider all submissions before providing a revised ORS C6 for further consultation.
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