Section 1: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

"disposal", in relation to waste, includes its removal, deposit or destruction, its discharge, whether into water or into the air or into a sewer or drain or otherwise, or its burial, whether underground or otherwise; "facility" means an assembly of devices, equipment, structures or natural features, whether simple or complex, which serves some purposes or performs some function, in the course of which ionizing radiation is, or is capable of being created; "ionizing radiation" means electromagnetic or corpuscular radiation, consisting of protons or particles capable of producing ions directly or indirectly, in its passage through matter; "irradiating device" means an apparatus capable of producing ionizing radiation; "Minister" means the Minister responsible for energy and power; "owner" means the person having administrative control over a radiation source; "public" means any person not designated as a worker; "radiation source" means any irradiating device or radioactive material; "radio-active material" means any material emitting ionizing radiation of sufficient intensity to entail significant risk of disability or disease as a result of exposure; "Registrar" means the person appointed as such under section 6; No. 14 The Protection From Radiation Act 2001 15 "waste" includes a substance which constitutes scrap material or an effluent or other unwanted surplus substance arising from the application of any process, and also includes any substance or article which requires to be disposed of as being broken, worn out, contaminated or otherwise spoilt; "workers" includes all persons potentially exposed to inonizing radiation as a result of their occupation. PART II—ADMINISTRATION