Apply for new licence

To apply for a new licence you should:

• Check with the supplier that the unit you wish to add complies with the relevant safety standard
• Check that the person(s) you wish to add to your licence have the necessary training and qualifications to use the intended radiation source(s).
• Read the information on how to apply
• Complete and submit an application form
• For a new premises contact an accredited person to ensure the place with comply with standards.
• Obtain a certificate of compliance for the place from the accredited person
• Submit the certificate of compliance for the place together with an application to register the place

Note applications under the Mutual Recognition Act (if you hold an equivalent licence in other parts of Australia or New Zealand) can be made. Please read the guidance information and submit a completed statutory declaration form together with the appropriate application for licence form.

Amend a licence

To add people or items to my existing licence:

• Check with the supplier that the unit you wish to add complies with the relevant safety standard.
• Check that the person you wish to add to your licence has the necessary training and qualifications to use the intended radiation source(s).

Complete and submit an application for amendment (available on the Forms page).

Change of Circumstances

If the names of any partners, directors, or phone numbers emails and business details have changed you need to notify the Radiation Protection Unit by submitting application for amendment there is no fee for this application (available on the Forms page).

Mutual recognition

If you hold a “radiation’ licence in another Australian jurisdiction, or New Zealand, you are may apply for an equivalent licence in Tasmania. To apply read the guidance information complete and submit the:

• appropriate licence application form; and
• statutory declaration

Apply to register a place

To register a new place you should:

• Contact an accredited person to discuss the design and other requirements required by the standard
• Ensure that any building works incorporate the radiation safety features required by the standard
• Obtain a certificate of compliance from the accredited person that demonstrates the place complies with the appropriate standard
• Submit a copy of the certificate of compliance for the place together with an application form to register the place

Amend a registration for a place

If you are intending to change the:

• type of radiation source that the place was registered for storage and/or use (e.g. replacing a BMD with a CT unit)  then you need to contact the Radiation Protection Unit and discuss the process.
• Workload of the unit currently approved for that registered place (e.g. more procedures per four week period than specified on the registration certificate)
• Structural layout of the registered place.

Then you need to contact the Radiation Protection Unit to discuss how to proceed.

Disposal of a radiation source requires approval prior to any disposal.  To seek approval for disposal complete and submit an application for amendment (see Forms page).

Up to five domestic smoke alarms containing Am241 may be disposed of safely in household rubbish per week.

Existing equipment

Ongoing compliance is assured by having an accredited person test and re- certify a radiation source.

It is the licence holder’s responsibility to have the radiation sources they use periodically tested and certified.  The certification period is given in Regulation 6 of the Radiation Protection Regulations 2016.

A letter reminding the licence holder to have their radiation source tested and certified is sent approximately eight weeks before the current certification expires.

A radiation source must not be used unless it has a current certificate of compliance.

To arrange testing and certification contact one of the accredited testers.

NOTE FOR NEW EQUIPMENT ONLY

In the case of a new radiation source, obtained from a supplier who holds a Tasmanian radiation licence, a certificate of compliance may be issued by the licensed supplier without the need for further testing once the new radiation source has been authorised for possession, acquisition and storage in Tasmania.