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                                                  (Section 96)

                                        Consequential Amendments

Column 1 (Enactment)

Column 2 (How affected)

1. Atomic Energy Commission

Act, 2000, (Act 588)

 

 

 

2. Environmental Protection Agency

Act, 1994 (Act 490)

 

 

3. Factories, Shops and Offices Act,

1970 (Act 328)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Minerals and Mining Act, 2006

(Act 703)

Sections 3(1) (a) and (e) and 14 are repealed.

 

 

 

Section 12 is amended by inserting after

subsection (2)

 

 

“(3) Despite subsection (1), the Nuclear

Regulatory Authority established under

section 3 of the Nuclear Regulatory

Authority Act, 2014 (Act......) shall

issue the appropriate notice, where the activity or practice to be undertaken involves a nuclear or radioactive material.

”Section 83(2) is amended by

(a) deleting “and” after paragraph (g);

(b) inserting “and” after paragraph (h);

and

(c) inserting after paragraph (h), para

graph (i)

“(i) the premises of a facility as

defined under the Nuclear Regulatory Authority Act, 2014,(Act......).”

 

(a) Section 62 is amended by the

substitution for subsections (2)

and (3) of

“(2) Where a radio-active

mineral is discovered in the

course of exercising a right under

this Act or under another enactment,

the holder of the mineral right or

another person shall immediately

notify the Nuclear Regulatory

Authority, the Commission and the Geological Survey Department of the discovery.

(3) Where a radioactive mineral

is discovered on land other than land

subject to a mineral right, the owner

of the land shall immediately notify

the Nuclear Regulatory Authority,

the Commission and the Geological

Survey Department of the Discovery.”

(b) By the substitution for section 63, of “63.

A holder of a licence or lease

under section 62 shall within the first

week of each month furnish the

Nuclear Regulatory Authority, the

Commission and the Geological

Survey Department with a true report

in writing of the prospecting

and mining operations conducted

by the holder in the immediately

preceding month with respect to radioactive minerals.”.

(c) By the substitution for section 64, of

“64. (1) A person shall not export a

radioactive mineral except under or

in accordance with the terms and

conditions of a permit granted for

that purpose by the Nuclear Regulatory

Authority acting after consultation with the Minister.

(2) A permit issued under subsection

(1) shall be in the form and is subject to the payment of the fee the Minister responsible for the Nuclear Regulatory Authority acting in consultation with the

Minister, may on the advice of the Commission determine.”