Ms WORTH (6:40 PM) —I move:

That the bill be now read a second time.

This bill is an adjunct to the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Bill 1998—the ARPANS Bill. This bill details changes to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Act 1987—the ANSTO Act—resulting from the introduction of the ARPANS Bill. Changes include repeal ing those parts which established the Nuclear Safety Bureau and the Safety Review Committee. These changes are necessary because once the ARPANS Bill is passed the Nuclear Safety Bureau will be incorporated into the new Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency and the Safety Review Committee will become redundant.

This bill ensures that the current powers of the Director of the Nuclear Safety Bureau, as set out in the ANSTO Act, are conferred on the CEO of ARPANSA to ensure seamless and continued regulation of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. I commend this bill to the House and present the signed explanatory memorandum.

Debate (on motion by Dr Theophanous) adjourned.