Procedure

1. An application for a licence contemplated in section 16(2) must be submitted to the Director-General in the prescribed form and must, in addition to the particulars stated in section l7( 1), contain -

(a) particulars of any authorisations, registrations and licences which have been granted under this Act to the applicant as well as particulars of any applications for authorisations, registrations or licences that have been refused;

(b) the prescribed particulars of the applicant.

(c) a technical description of the practices for which the applicant requires a licence.

(d) the planned time of commencement and completion of all the facilities relating to the practice concerned.

(e) the name and qualifications of at least one person designated as a radiation safety officer.

(f) all relevant information relating to the impact of the practice concerned on public interests.

(g) the results of all assessments, including environmental impact assessments and studies that have been carried out in respect of the practice concerned as well as reports of those assessments and studies when the application is for disposal of radioactive waste or storage of radioactive sources for long periods.

(h) particulars of the impact of the practice concerned on private interests, including the interests of affected landowners and holders of other rights and interests in land.

(i) copies of consents and permits required under any other law or of the relevant applications if such consents or permits have not yet been granted.

(2) Before the Director-General approves an application for a licence, he or she must conduct a pre-licensing generic safety assessment of a particular design of facilities and equipment as well as the related operating procedures of the applicant, to ascertain compliance of the undertaking or the practice with the standards and any other requirements that may be necessary to fulfil the objects of this Act.

(3) The Director-General must within 30 days after receipt of the application, inform the applicant, in writing, whether or not the application is complete and whether additional information is required before the application can be considered.

(4) The Director-General must, within 90 days after informing the applicant as contemplated in subsection (3) if no further infon11ation is required, or after the information required in terms of that subsection has been provided, grant or refuse to grant a licence for an application made under subsection (1).

(5) The Director-General must record the information contained in the application referred to in subsection (1) in a register of the authority for licences.