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6 PART I PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Radiation Protection Act 2007 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Agency” means the National Environment Agency established under the National Environment Agency Act (Cap. 195);

“authorised officer” means any person appointed as an authorised officer under section 3(2), and includes the Director-General;

“conveyance” includes any vessel, train, vehicle, aircraft or other mode of transport;

“Director-General” means the Director-General of Environmental Protection appointed under section 3(1) of the Environmental Pollution Control Act (Cap. 94A);

“disposal”, in relation to waste, includes—
 * (a) its removal, deposit or destruction;
 * (b) its discharge, whether onto land, into water or air, into a sewer or drain, or otherwise; and
 * (c) its burial, whether underground or otherwise,

and “dispose of” shall be construed accordingly;

“IAEA” means the International Atomic Energy Agency established by the IAEA Statute;

“IAEA inspector” means an individual designated as an inspector by the IAEA Board of Governors according to the procedures set out in the Safeguards Agreement to carry out an inspection or a visit in accordance with that Agreement;

“IAEA Statute” means the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency, being the Statute which was ratified by Singapore on