National Directory for Radiation Protection, 2nd Edition (2021)

Table of Contents

1. Source documents

  • Official PDF retained locally — ARPANSA, 2021; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  • Extracted text
  • Provenance and SHA-256 metadata

2. Authority and jurisdiction

  • National framework endorsed through Australian governmental arrangements to promote nationally uniform radiation protection.
  • Contains regulatory elements intended for adoption by Commonwealth, state and territory jurisdictions; it is not, by itself, Queensland legislation.
  • A provision has legal force for THHS only through an identified Queensland enactment, regulatory instrument, licence/approval condition or other valid adoption mechanism.

3. Key takeaways

  • NDRP2 is the coordination layer between national radiation-protection policy and jurisdictional legislation.
  • It promotes consistent scope, authorisation, inspection, enforcement, incident reporting, emergency response and adoption of national codes and standards.
  • Schedule 1 consolidates dose limits and reference levels; these remain source-scoped national regulatory elements until adopted in the relevant jurisdiction.
  • Schedule 3 identifies national codes and standards for regulatory use, while Schedule 4 supports nationally consistent incident reporting.
  • For this project, NDRP2 explains convergence between Queensland controls and ARPANSA codes but must not be presented as a direct regulator of THHS.

4. Summary

4.1. Introduction

  • Sets out citation, background, vision, scope, interpretation, structure and governance for a nationally consistent system.

4.2. Part A — Legislative framework

  • Describes the activities and sources that a jurisdiction's radiation-protection legislation should cover.
  • Establishes categories and core considerations for authorisations and for granting, conditioning, varying, suspending or cancelling them.

4.3. Part B — Agreed arrangements

  • Addresses mutual recognition, regulatory competence and resources, emergency response, transport and incident reporting.
  • Provides common approaches to exclusions, exemptions, clearance, prohibitions, authorisation, inspection and enforcement.
  • Supports adoption and implementation of national codes and standards while recognising jurisdictional responsibility and rural or remote considerations.

4.4. Schedules

Schedule 1
Dose limits, reference levels and dose coefficients.
Schedule 2
Exempt apparatus and sources.
Schedule 3
Codes and standards intended to support national consistency.
Schedule 4
National incident-reporting arrangements.
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A glossary defines nationally harmonised terms.

5. Important definitions, roles, limits and records

Authorisation
A generic national concept encompassing regulatory permission such as registration or licensing; Queensland uses its own statutory licence and approval terminology.
Regulatory body
The jurisdictional authority with legal responsibility; for THHS legal claims, the applicable Queensland mechanism must be identified.
Dose limits and reference levels
National regulatory elements collected in Schedule 1; confirm the binding Queensland values against the current Regulation.
Records
Supports consistent authorisation, inspection, exposure, source-register, incident and national-reporting records.

6. Practical relationship to the THHS RSPP

  • Provides the national policy architecture behind many Queensland provisions and the RSPP's licensing, dose-control, monitoring, emergency and incident-reporting themes.
  • Helps classify ARPANSA codes as national materials capable of adoption rather than automatically binding local law.
  • The immediate enforceable basis for the THHS RSPP remains Queensland law, applicable standards, approvals and licence conditions.

7. See Also