S.L. 585.2 Art. 4Definitions. Cap. 585.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act;

"Commission" means Commission for the protection from Ionising and Non-Ionising Radiation and defined in article 10 of the Act;

"Convention" means the Convention on Nuclear Safety

"emergency" means a non-routine situation or event involving a radiation source that necessitates prompt action to mitigate serious adverse consequences for human health and safety, quality of life, property or the environment, or a hazard that could give rise to such serious adverse consequences; "Maltese Radiological Response Plan" means the plan referred to under article 31 of the Act;

"Minister" means the minister responsible for the Act;

"Nuclear facility" means any facility where activities or practices utilizing nuclear material are conducted, including a nuclear power plant, research reactor, fuel fabrication plant, spent fuel storage facility, enrichment plant, reprocessing facility or any other facility determined by the Commission;

"Nuclear or radiological emergency" means an emergency in which there is, or is perceived to be, a hazard due to:

(a) the energy resulting from a nuclear chain reaction or from the decay of the products of a chain reaction; or

(b) radiation exposure;

"nuclear safety" means the achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents and mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers and the general public from dangers arising from ionizing radiations from nuclear facilities;

"Secretariat" means the Secretariat of the Commission as established by article 12 of the Act.